encodeur
\ɑ̃.kɔ.dœʁ\
The verdict
“encodeur” is uncommon French (frequency #99,033 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,033
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui encode.
Corpus desk
Index FR-encodeur · encodeur · French
encodeur · rank #99,033 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,033
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH enchaînaient
Nearest frequency peer: enchaînaient (-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 « encodeur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- embrigadés
embrigadés
971 corpus weight
- embûche
embûche
970 corpus weight
- enchaînaient
enchaînaient
969 corpus weight
- encodeur
encodeur
968 corpus weight
- encycliques
encycliques
967 corpus weight
- endettées
endettées
965 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « encodeur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | encodeur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.kɔ.dœʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #99,033 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « encodeur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
encodeur is uncommon French at frequency #99,033 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɑ̃.kɔ.dœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui encode.".
encodeur doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, 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, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is encodeur, spelled E-N-C-O-D-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Qui encode.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how encodeur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À l'aide des plus récentes technologies de séquençage de l'ADN, les neuf centres du projet ont séquencé la totalité du génome de 179 personnes et les gènes encodeurs de protéines de 697 personnes.
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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