soigneur
\swa.ɲœʁ\
The verdict
“soigneur” is uncommon French (frequency #55,603 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,603
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne qui donne des soins et s'occupe de l'état physique d'un sportif, en particulier un boxeur, un catcheur, un cycliste, un athlète.
Corpus desk
Index FR-soigneur · soigneur · French
soigneur · rank #55,603 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,603
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH socket
Nearest frequency peer: socket (-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 « soigneur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- snapdragon
snapdragon
44,401 corpus weight
- SNK
SNK
44,400 corpus weight
- socket
socket
44,399 corpus weight
- soigneur
soigneur
44,398 corpus weight
- songeant
songeant
44,397 corpus weight
- souffla
souffla
44,396 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « soigneur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | soigneur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \swa.ɲœʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #55,603 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « soigneur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
soigneur is uncommon French at frequency #55,603 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \swa.ɲœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for soigneur in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is soigneur, spelled S-O-I-G-N-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Personne qui donne des soins et s'occupe de l'état physique d'un sportif, en particulier un boxeur, un catcheur, un cycliste, un athlète.
- 2Personne qui donne des soins et s'occupe de nourrir des animaux, en particulier dans les zoos.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how soigneur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les soigneurs du Tour de France.
De l’aveu même des soigneurs, il n’y a pas de « journée-type » au zoo : chaque semaine a son lot de surprises et d’inattendus.
This word in other languages
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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