tonneliers
\tɔ.nə.lje\
The verdict
“tonneliers” is uncommon French (frequency #98,571 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,571
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de tonnelier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tonneliers · tonneliers · French
tonneliers · rank #98,571 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,571
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tolérons
Nearest frequency peer: tolérons (-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 « tonneliers »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- titulature
titulature
1,433 corpus weight
- tolérons
tolérons
1,431 corpus weight
- tonneliers
tonneliers
1,430 corpus weight
- tordait
tordait
1,429 corpus weight
- torrente
torrente
1,428 corpus weight
- toréador
toréador
1,427 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tonneliers » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tonneliers |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɔ.nə.lje\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #98,571 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tonneliers » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tonneliers is uncommon French at frequency #98,571 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tɔ.nə.lje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de tonnelier.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for tonneliers, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 tonneliers, spelled T-O-N-N-E-L-I-E-R-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de tonnelier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tonneliers appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le club des Rouleurs de barriques de Lussac-Saint-Émilion a repris le flambeau d’une tradition séculaire qui est apparue chez les tonneliers de Bordeaux.
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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