extirpateur
\ɛk.stiʁ.pa.tœʁ\
The verdict
“extirpateur” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui extirpe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-extirpateur · extirpateur · French
extirpateur · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "E" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | extirpateur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛk.stiʁ.pa.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « extirpateur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
extirpateur is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɛk.stiʁ.pa.tœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui extirpe.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for extirpateur, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is extirpateur, spelled E-X-T-I-R-P-A-T-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Qui extirpe.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how extirpateur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La violence extirpatrice mise en œuvre dans la liquidation des communautés juives ressort certes du déterminisme racial nazi, mais aussi, peut-être plus profondément, de la forme de consentement des hommes des unités mobiles de tuerie à ce qu’Himmler appelait « la plus horrible des tâches » : le génocide.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.