extenseur
\ɛk.stɑ̃.sœʁ\
The verdict
“extenseur” is uncommon French (frequency #86,697 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,697
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui sert à étendre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-extenseur · extenseur · French
extenseur · rank #86,697 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,697
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH exsangues
Nearest frequency peer: exsangues (-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 « extenseur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- exercerait
exercerait
13,308 corpus weight
- exhibit
exhibit
13,307 corpus weight
- exsangues
exsangues
13,305 corpus weight
- extenseur
extenseur
13,304 corpus weight
- extracellul…
extracellulaire
13,303 corpus weight
- familiarisés
familiarisés
13,302 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « extenseur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | extenseur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛk.stɑ̃.sœʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #86,697 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « extenseur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
extenseur is uncommon French at frequency #86,697 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɛk.stɑ̃.sœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui sert à étendre.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for extenseur, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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 extenseur, spelled E-X-T-E-N-S-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Qui sert à étendre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how extenseur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’enclouure sera grave, si le pus, après avoir long-temps séjourné dans le pied, a carié l'os, ou si, après avoir fusé dessous la chair de la couronne, il a gâté, ou le tendon extenseur, ou le cartilage latéral, ou l'articulation.
M. Schwartz diagnostique une rupture incomplète du tendon extenseur au niveau de son insertion sur la phalangette.
Antonyms
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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