autoradio
\o.to.ʁa.djo\
The verdict
“autoradio” is uncommon French (frequency #50,071 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,071
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Poste de radio conçu pour fonctionner à bord d’une automobile.
Corpus desk
Index FR-autoradio · autoradio · French
autoradio · rank #50,071 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,071
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH attrapa
Nearest frequency peer: attrapa (-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 « autoradio »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- assimilables
assimilables
49,933 corpus weight
- Athénien
Athénien
49,932 corpus weight
- attrapa
attrapa
49,931 corpus weight
- autoradio
autoradio
49,930 corpus weight
- Aztèque
Aztèque
49,929 corpus weight
- babies
babies
49,928 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « autoradio » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | autoradio |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \o.to.ʁa.djo\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #50,071 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « autoradio » en français
Rare enough to double-check
autoradio is uncommon French at frequency #50,071 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \o.to.ʁa.djo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Poste de radio conçu pour fonctionner à bord d’une automobile.".
autoradio doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, 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 best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is autoradio, spelled A-U-T-O-R-A-D-I-O.
Definition
- 1Poste de radio conçu pour fonctionner à bord d’une automobile.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how autoradio appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est pas de ma faute si je n’ai pas les moyens, moi, de m’offrir un autoradio…
Lors d’une révision un client demande à profiter de l'arrêt du véhicule pour changer son autoradio.
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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