routinier
\ʁu.ti.nje\
The verdict
“routinier” is uncommon French (frequency #70,177 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,177
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui agit par routine, qui se conforme à la routine, qui refuse de suivre le progrès.
Corpus desk
Index FR-routinier · routinier · French
routinier · rank #70,177 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,177
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH roula
Nearest frequency peer: roula (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « routinier »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- rosées
rosées
29,827 corpus weight
- Rotschild
Rotschild
29,826 corpus weight
- roula
roula
29,825 corpus weight
- routinier
routinier
29,824 corpus weight
- ruinées
ruinées
29,822 corpus weight
- russophones
russophones
29,821 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « routinier » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | routinier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁu.ti.nje\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #70,177 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « routinier » en français
Rare enough to double-check
routinier is uncommon French at frequency #70,177 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁu.ti.nje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Celui qui agit par routine, qui se conforme à la routine, qui refuse de suivre le progrès.".
routinier has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is routinier, spelled R-O-U-T-I-N-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Celui qui agit par routine, qui se conforme à la routine, qui refuse de suivre le progrès.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how routinier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce médecin n’est qu’un vieux routinier.
Le routinier s’inspire d’idées qui ne changent plus quand il les a adoptées, généralement d’ailleurs sans discussion.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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