rondier
\ʁɔ̃.dje\
The verdict
“rondier” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne chargée de faire des rondes de surveillance.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rondier · rondier · French
rondier · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "R" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rondier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁɔ̃.dje\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rondier » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rondier is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁɔ̃.dje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for rondier in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is rondier, spelled R-O-N-D-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Personne chargée de faire des rondes de surveillance.
- 2Nom vernaculaire donné à plusieurs palmiers du genre Borassus et en particulier à Borassus flabellifer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rondier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le récit suivant est extrait d’un entretien avec un rondier d’une entreprise nécessitant ce genre de postes pour des raisons de sécurité et de risque par rapport à l’environnement.
Tandis que les opérateurs - les chefs de bloc - en salle de commande suivent la charge et le fonctionnement des installations, les rondiers débutent leur périple.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.