concentrateur
\kɔ̃.sɑ̃.tʁa.tœʁ\
The verdict
“concentrateur” is uncommon French (frequency #92,575 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,575
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dispositif qui sert à concentrer quelque chose.
Corpus desk
Index FR-concentrateur · concentrateur · French
concentrateur · rank #92,575 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,575
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH concassage
Nearest frequency peer: concassage (-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 « concentrateur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- complexés
complexés
7,429 corpus weight
- compressés
compressés
7,428 corpus weight
- concassage
concassage
7,427 corpus weight
- concentrate…
concentrateur
7,426 corpus weight
- concrétisera
concrétisera
7,425 corpus weight
- configurés
configurés
7,424 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « concentrateur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | concentrateur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.sɑ̃.tʁa.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #92,575 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « concentrateur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
concentrateur is uncommon French at frequency #92,575 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ̃.sɑ̃.tʁa.tœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for concentrateur, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 concentrateur, spelled C-O-N-C-E-N-T-R-A-T-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Dispositif qui sert à concentrer quelque chose.
- 2Dispositif informatique placé au nœud d’un réseau en étoile, qui concentre et distribue les communications de données.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how concentrateur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Si bien que le commutateur permet d’allier les propriétés du pont en matière de filtrage, et du concentrateur en matière de connectivité.
Linky envoie des informations à un concentrateur (situé en dehors de votre domicile) par les fils du secteur électrique quelques dixièmes de seconde par jour, et moins d'une minute la nuit.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).