atténuateur
French, noun/a.te.nɥa.tœʁ/
atténuateur is spelled A-T-T-É-N-U-A-T-E-U-R (11 letters) and appears about once in every 35 million words in written French, the 190,022nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Atténuateur is a French masculine noun meaning “attenuator” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Ce qui atténue, ce qui rend quelque chose moins fort”.
What does atténuateur mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineattenuator
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui a l’effet de diminuer l’intensité de quelque chose.
noun: 1. Ce qui atténue, ce qui rend quelque chose moins fort. 2. Appareil permettant d'atténuer un signal électrique afin de diminuer son amplitude. 3. Séquence de l’ADN sur laquelle porte l’atténuation.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of atténuateur
- atténuateurs plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce atténuateur?
- /a.te.nɥa.tœʁ/
- \a.te.nɥa.tœʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is atténuateur in French?
atténuateur appears about once in every 35 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).