détendeur
\de.tɑ̃.dœʁ\
The verdict
“détendeur” is uncommon French (frequency #81,981 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,981
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Appareil qui abaisse la pression d’un gaz et régule la pression de sortie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-detendeur · détendeur · French
détendeur · rank #81,981 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,981
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH désodorisant
Nearest frequency peer: désodorisant (-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 « détendeur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- déprimantes
déprimantes
18,024 corpus weight
- désactivées
désactivées
18,023 corpus weight
- désavantage…
désavantageux
18,022 corpus weight
- désodorisant
désodorisant
18,021 corpus weight
- détendeur
détendeur
18,020 corpus weight
- effervescen…
effervescents
18,017 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « détendeur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | détendeur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.tɑ̃.dœʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #81,981 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « détendeur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
détendeur is uncommon French at frequency #81,981 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \de.tɑ̃.dœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Appareil qui abaisse la pression d’un gaz et régule la pression de sortie.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for détendeur, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is détendeur, spelled D-É-T-E-N-D-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Appareil qui abaisse la pression d’un gaz et régule la pression de sortie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how détendeur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un détendeur est à la pression ce qu'un robinet à flotteur est à la hauteur de liquide.
Avec un tuyau, un détendeur et le gaz, cela fait 1000 francs tout rond.
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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