descripteur
\dɛs.kʁip.tœʁ\
The verdict
“descripteur” is uncommon French (frequency #69,746 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,746
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui décrit.
Corpus desk
Index FR-descripteur · descripteur · French
descripteur · rank #69,746 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,746
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH descripteurs
Nearest frequency peer: descripteurs (+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 « descripteur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- datacenters
datacenters
30,261 corpus weight
- delicious
delicious
30,258 corpus weight
- descripteur
descripteur
30,255 corpus weight
- descripteurs
descripteurs
30,254 corpus weight
- digèrent
digèrent
30,252 corpus weight
- diligent
diligent
30,251 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « descripteur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | descripteur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \dɛs.kʁip.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #69,746 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « descripteur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
descripteur is uncommon French at frequency #69,746 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \dɛs.kʁip.tœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui décrit.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for descripteur, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is descripteur, spelled D-E-S-C-R-I-P-T-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Qui décrit.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how descripteur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il dit d’Homère qu’il est monotone, verbeux et descripteur.
Qu’on nous pardonne cette petite digression historique, nous ne sommes pas coutumier du fait, et nous allons revenir bien vite à notre humble mission de touriste descripteur et de daguerréotype littéraire.
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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