tonnelier
\tɔ.nə.lje\
The verdict
“tonnelier” is uncommon French (frequency #61,948 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,948
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui fait et répare des tonneaux, qui vend des baquets, des bouteilles, des bouchons, etc., et qui se charge de mettre le vin en bouteilles.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tonnelier · tonnelier · French
tonnelier · rank #61,948 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,948
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tintamarre
Nearest frequency peer: tintamarre (-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 « tonnelier »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tick
tick
38,056 corpus weight
- tierra
tierra
38,055 corpus weight
- tintamarre
tintamarre
38,054 corpus weight
- tonnelier
tonnelier
38,053 corpus weight
- tourbière
tourbière
38,052 corpus weight
- traveler
traveler
38,051 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tonnelier » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tonnelier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɔ.nə.lje\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #61,948 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tonnelier » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tonnelier is uncommon French at frequency #61,948 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tɔ.nə.lje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Celui qui fait et répare des tonneaux, qui vend des baquets, des bouteilles, des bouchons, etc., et qui se charge de mettre le vin en bouteilles.".
tonnelier has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is tonnelier, spelled T-O-N-N-E-L-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Celui qui fait et répare des tonneaux, qui vend des baquets, des bouteilles, des bouchons, etc., et qui se charge de mettre le vin en bouteilles.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tonnelier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le marteau des tonneliers fait retentir les voûtes de caves aériennes.
Si les corporations exclusivement féminines restent l’exception, les corporations mixtes qui admettent indistinctement les hommes et les femmes sont extrêmement nombreuses. Parmi celles-ci, il faut citer les drapiers, les tisserands, les grainiers (Rouen, Paris), les passementiers (Paris, Tours, Clermont), les cabaretiers (Tours, Orléans), les tonneliers…
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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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