veneur
\və.nœʁ\
The verdict
“veneur” is uncommon French (frequency #69,517 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,517
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui est chargé de faire chasser les chiens courants.
Corpus desk
Index FR-veneur · veneur · French
veneur · rank #69,517 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,517
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH venter
Nearest frequency peer: venter (+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 « veneur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Valentinois
Valentinois
30,488 corpus weight
- veilleux
veilleux
30,486 corpus weight
- veneur
veneur
30,484 corpus weight
- venter
venter
30,483 corpus weight
- vestale
vestale
30,482 corpus weight
- vexations
vexations
30,481 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « veneur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | veneur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \və.nœʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #69,517 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « veneur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
veneur is uncommon French at frequency #69,517 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \və.nœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Celui qui est chargé de faire chasser les chiens courants.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for veneur, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is veneur, spelled V-E-N-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Celui qui est chargé de faire chasser les chiens courants.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how veneur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…]; or, on conçoit l'affectueuse et haute estime de tout veneur pour la sagacité de son limier, lorsqu'on songe que, selon cette sagacité, on chasse ou on fait buisson creux , en cela que le limier doit d'abord chercher et trouver l'animal destiné à être ensuite couru et forcé par la meute.
Le bon veneur gagne l'affection et le respect de ses chiens en leur rendant quotidiennement visite au chenil, en les brossant et en s'impliquant dans leur dressage.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).