timonier
\ti.mɔ.nje\
The verdict
“timonier” is uncommon French (frequency #59,687 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,687
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chacun des chevaux attelés de chaque côté du timon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-timonier · timonier · French
timonier · rank #59,687 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,687
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tiendrez
Nearest frequency peer: tiendrez (-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 « timonier »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- throw
throw
40,317 corpus weight
- Tianjin
Tianjin
40,316 corpus weight
- tiendrez
tiendrez
40,315 corpus weight
- timonier
timonier
40,314 corpus weight
- tok
tok
40,312 corpus weight
- toros
toros
40,311 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « timonier » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | timonier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ti.mɔ.nje\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #59,687 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « timonier » en français
Rare enough to double-check
timonier is uncommon French at frequency #59,687 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ti.mɔ.nje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Chacun des chevaux attelés de chaque côté du timon.".
Zero misspellings are on record for timonier in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is timonier, spelled T-I-M-O-N-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Chacun des chevaux attelés de chaque côté du timon.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how timonier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sans se faire prier, le père Minaï, colosse à barbe d’ébène, ventripotent comme un samovar monstre où bout le sbitène de tout un marché transi de froid, grimpa sur le timonier qui faillit crouler sous son poids.
Elles éclairaient d'une lueur vive un nuage de buée au-dessus de la croupe en sueur des timoniers, et, des deux côtés de la route, la neige qui semblait se dérouler sous le reflet mobile des lumières.
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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