condenseur
\kɔ̃.dɑ̃.sœʁ\
The verdict
“condenseur” is uncommon French (frequency #67,394 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,394
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 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.
Corpus desk
Index FR-condenseur · condenseur · French
condenseur · rank #67,394 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,394
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH condamnera
Nearest frequency peer: condamnera (-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 « condenseur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- compensera
compensera
32,611 corpus weight
- concurrenti…
concurrentielles
32,609 corpus weight
- condamnera
condamnera
32,608 corpus weight
- condenseur
condenseur
32,607 corpus weight
- coni
coni
32,605 corpus weight
- consternés
consternés
32,604 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « condenseur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « condenseur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
condenseur is uncommon French at frequency #67,394 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ̃.dɑ̃.sœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how condenseur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Séjour en Inde pour la construction en toiture d’un condenseur radiatif ou récupérateur passif de rosée comme ressource alternative en eau potable pour cette région du Tamil Nadu.
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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