distillateur
\dis.ti.la.tœʁ\
The verdict
“distillateur” is uncommon French (frequency #98,973 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,973
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui fait des distillations.
Corpus desk
Index FR-distillateur · distillateur · French
distillateur · rank #98,973 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,973
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH directionnell…
Nearest frequency peer: directionnelles (-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 « distillateur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dinka
dinka
1,032 corpus weight
- diplodocus
diplodocus
1,030 corpus weight
- directionne…
directionnelles
1,029 corpus weight
- distillateur
distillateur
1,028 corpus weight
- DivX
DivX
1,027 corpus weight
- doch
doch
1,025 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « distillateur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | distillateur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dis.ti.la.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #98,973 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « distillateur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
distillateur is uncommon French at frequency #98,973 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dis.ti.la.tœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for distillateur, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is distillateur, spelled D-I-S-T-I-L-L-A-T-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Celui qui fait des distillations.
- 2Celui dont la profession est de fabriquer par la distillation toutes sortes d’eaux, d’huiles, d’essences, de liqueurs, etc.
- 3Appareil qui fait des distillations.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how distillateur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les mélasses, dont on extrait encore du sucre blanc, peuvent être employées par les distillateurs pour faire de l'alcool et les résidus donnent ensuite de la potasse.
Puis, s’approchant des fortifications, il but encore chez les distillateurs où l’on voit, dans l’ombre, luire les robinets de cuivre des tonneaux et chez les débitants dont les volets verts demeurent clos entre deux caisses de lauriers.
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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