condenser
\kɔ̃.dɑ̃.se\
The verdict
“condenser” is uncommon French (frequency #63,639 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,639
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Resserrer dans un moindre espace, réduire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-condenser · condenser · French
condenser · rank #63,639 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,639
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH confirmerait
Nearest frequency peer: confirmerait (+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 « condenser »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- comparateurs
comparateurs
36,366 corpus weight
- complétait
complétait
36,364 corpus weight
- condenser
condenser
36,362 corpus weight
- confirmerait
confirmerait
36,361 corpus weight
- confédéré
confédéré
36,360 corpus weight
- congrue
congrue
36,359 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « condenser » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | condenser |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.dɑ̃.se\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #63,639 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « condenser » en français
Rare enough to double-check
condenser is uncommon French at frequency #63,639 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kɔ̃.dɑ̃.se\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for condenser, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 condenser, spelled C-O-N-D-E-N-S-E-R.
Definition
- 1Resserrer dans un moindre espace, réduire.
- 2Faire passer (ou passer, pronominal) de l'état gazeux à l'état liquide ou solide, « matière condensée ».
- 3Lier des molécules (ou se lier, pronominal) par réaction chimique par une réaction de condensation.
- 4Resserrer, résumer, compacter un discours un raisonnement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how condenser appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le froid condense les corps.
Quand je vais camper, je prends avec moi du lait condensé pour le café.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).