voileur
\vwa.lœʁ\
The verdict
“voileur” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Marinier qui conduit l’espèce de train de bois flotté appelé voile.
Corpus desk
Index FR-voileur · voileur · French
voileur · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "V" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | voileur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vwa.lœʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « voileur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
voileur is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \vwa.lœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Marinier qui conduit l’espèce de train de bois flotté appelé voile.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for voileur 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is voileur, spelled V-O-I-L-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Marinier qui conduit l’espèce de train de bois flotté appelé voile.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how voileur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour ce type de flottage, en train, les troncs reliés entre eux formaient des radeaux gouvernables de 60 à 75 mètres de longueur. On appelait flotteurs ou voileurs les personnes chargées de guider ces radeaux.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.