condenseur
\kɔ̃.dɑ̃.sœʁ\
The verdict
“condenseur” is an uncommon French word, ranked #67,394 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #67,394
- frequency rank, French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Récipient dans lequel se rend la vapeur après avoir agi sur le piston d’une machine à vapeur et où elle est ramenée à l’état liquide par un jet d’eau froide.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | condenseur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.dɑ̃.sœʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #67,394 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “condenseur” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for condenseur is 10 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ̃.dɑ̃.sœʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #67,394 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No generated misspelling entries exist for condenseur in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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 condenseur, spelled C-O-N-D-E-N-S-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Récipient dans lequel se rend la vapeur après avoir agi sur le piston d’une machine à vapeur et où elle est ramenée à l’état liquide par un jet d’eau froide.
- 2Récupérateur de rosée, dispositif où se condense la vapeur d’eau.
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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Using “condenseur”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-O-N-D-E-N-S-E-U-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \kɔ̃.dɑ̃.sœʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.