typographe
\ti.pɔ.ɡʁaf\
The verdict
“typographe” is uncommon French (frequency #64,852 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,852
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui ou celle qui connaît, qui exerce l’art de la typographie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-typographe · typographe · French
typographe · rank #64,852 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,852
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tsarine
Nearest frequency peer: tsarine (-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 « typographe »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tsarine
tsarine
35,150 corpus weight
- typographe
typographe
35,149 corpus weight
- uel
uel
35,148 corpus weight
- ultramoderne
ultramoderne
35,147 corpus weight
- understandi…
understanding
35,146 corpus weight
- uruguayenne
uruguayenne
35,145 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « typographe » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | typographe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ti.pɔ.ɡʁaf\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #64,852 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « typographe » en français
Rare enough to double-check
typographe is uncommon French at frequency #64,852 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ti.pɔ.ɡʁaf\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Celui ou celle qui connaît, qui exerce l’art de la typographie.".
Zero misspellings are on record for typographe in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is typographe, spelled T-Y-P-O-G-R-A-P-H-E.
Definition
- 1Celui ou celle qui connaît, qui exerce l’art de la typographie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how typographe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
il s’agissait d’une typographe qui vint se plaindre à lui d’une douleur dans le côté qui, lorsqu’elle en souffrait, lui semblait devoir la faire mourir.
À sa propagande de quartier, il alliait une action incessante dans les ateliers du boulevard Masséna. Il avait puissamment resserré les liens moraux qui unissaient à la C. G. T. les typographes, les minervistes et les relieurs de Delaborde.
Synonyms
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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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