étrangleur
\e.tʁɑ̃.ɡlœʁ\
The verdict
“étrangleur” is uncommon French (frequency #77,182 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,182
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui étrangle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-etrangleur · étrangleur · French
étrangleur · rank #77,182 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,182
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH étonnerais
Nearest frequency peer: étonnerais (-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 « étrangleur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- énoncent
énoncent
22,823 corpus weight
- Érythréens
Érythréens
22,822 corpus weight
- éthiopiennes
éthiopiennes
22,821 corpus weight
- étonnerais
étonnerais
22,820 corpus weight
- étrangleur
étrangleur
22,819 corpus weight
- étrille
étrille
22,818 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « étrangleur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | étrangleur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \e.tʁɑ̃.ɡlœʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #77,182 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « étrangleur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
étrangleur is uncommon French at frequency #77,182 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \e.tʁɑ̃.ɡlœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui étrangle.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for étrangleur, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is étrangleur, spelled É-T-R-A-N-G-L-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Qui étrangle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how étrangleur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La nuque et la gorge gardaient, visibles, les marques de doigts étrangleurs.
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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