atterrisseur
\a.te.ʁi.sœʁ\
The verdict
“atterrisseur” is uncommon French (frequency #53,140 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,140
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Organe unitaire d’un train d’atterrissage équipé d’éléments (roue, patin, flotteur) sur lesquels un aéronef se repose lorsqu’il est au sol.
Corpus desk
Index FR-atterrisseur · atterrisseur · French
atterrisseur · rank #53,140 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,140
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH asylum
Nearest frequency peer: asylum (-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 « atterrisseur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
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assujetties
46,864 corpus weight
- assumées
assumées
46,863 corpus weight
- asylum
asylum
46,862 corpus weight
- atterrisseur
atterrisseur
46,861 corpus weight
- augurer
augurer
46,860 corpus weight
- autocratique
autocratique
46,858 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « atterrisseur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | atterrisseur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.te.ʁi.sœʁ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #53,140 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « atterrisseur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
atterrisseur is uncommon French at frequency #53,140 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.te.ʁi.sœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for atterrisseur, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is atterrisseur, spelled A-T-T-E-R-R-I-S-S-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Organe unitaire d’un train d’atterrissage équipé d’éléments (roue, patin, flotteur) sur lesquels un aéronef se repose lorsqu’il est au sol.
- 2Sonde spatiale destinée à atterrir sur un astre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how atterrisseur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ne quittons pas les trains d’atterrissage sans noter, que, sagement, les maisons qui fabriquent des atterrisseurs à relevage électrique, se sont entendues pour rationaliser leur production.
L’atterrisseur principal comprenait deux roues de grand diamètre dont les jambes oléo-pneumatiques Messier se prolongeaient jusqu’aux fuseaux-moteurs
Antonyms
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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