scaphandrier
\ska.fɑ̃.dʁi.je\
The verdict
“scaphandrier” is uncommon French (frequency #89,145 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,145
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plongeur qui utilise un scaphandre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-scaphandrier · scaphandrier · French
scaphandrier · rank #89,145 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,145
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH schedule
Nearest frequency peer: schedule (+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 « scaphandrier »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- satyrique
satyrique
10,860 corpus weight
- saucier
saucier
10,859 corpus weight
- Saux
Saux
10,858 corpus weight
- scaphandrier
scaphandrier
10,856 corpus weight
- schedule
schedule
10,855 corpus weight
- Schule
Schule
10,852 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « scaphandrier » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | scaphandrier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ska.fɑ̃.dʁi.je\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #89,145 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « scaphandrier » en français
Rare enough to double-check
scaphandrier is uncommon French at frequency #89,145 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ska.fɑ̃.dʁi.je\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Plongeur qui utilise un scaphandre.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for scaphandrier, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is scaphandrier, spelled S-C-A-P-H-A-N-D-R-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Plongeur qui utilise un scaphandre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how scaphandrier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un scaphandrier islandais a plongé. Il a constaté que le Pourquoi pas ? gisait par 15 m. de fond et que son étrave était brisée en quatre endroits.
Les scaphandriers n'existent plus ; cette pratique est interdite de nos jours parce que trop dangereuse. A plusieurs titres... On raconte même, sur les quais du port de Tabarka, que lorsqu'un scaphandrier descendait dans les profondeurs de la mer, relié avec le pont du bateau au moyen du narguilé, par lequel on lui insufflait de l'air, il pouvait descendr…
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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