compensateur
\kɔ̃.pɑ̃.sa.tœʁ\
The verdict
“compensateur” is uncommon French (frequency #69,703 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,703
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui compense.
Corpus desk
Index FR-compensateur · compensateur · French
compensateur · rank #69,703 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,703
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH comico
Nearest frequency peer: comico (-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 « compensateur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- collectionn…
collectionneuse
30,301 corpus weight
- collégiennes
collégiennes
30,300 corpus weight
- comico
comico
30,299 corpus weight
- compensateur
compensateur
30,298 corpus weight
- compilant
compilant
30,297 corpus weight
- complexifier
complexifier
30,296 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « compensateur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | compensateur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.pɑ̃.sa.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #69,703 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « compensateur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
compensateur is uncommon French at frequency #69,703 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kɔ̃.pɑ̃.sa.tœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui compense.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for compensateur in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is compensateur, spelled C-O-M-P-E-N-S-A-T-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Qui compense.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how compensateur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un ressort compensateur, établi en arrière de l’affût, avait pour effet d’annuler le recul ou du moins de produire une réaction rigoureusement égale, et de replacer automatiquement la pièce, après chaque coup, dans sa position première.
Puis, sous l’effet combiné d'une reprise dans l’industrie sidérurgique et de la réduction des importations par l’imposition de droits compensateurs, tant aux États-Unis que dans la Communauté européenne, le marché du ferrosilicium s'est redressé au cours du dernier trimestre de 1994.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).