fracturer

\fʁak.ty.ʁe\

/\fʁak.ty.ʁe\/ verb

The verdict

“fracturer” is uncommon French (frequency #66,747 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#66,747
frequency rank, French
3,276
“F” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rompre, briser avec violence.

Corpus desk

Index FR-fracturer · fracturer · French

fracturer · rank #66,747 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #66,747
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,276
  • PHOTO-FINISH fractal

Nearest frequency peer: fractal (-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 « fracturer »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fracturer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for fracturer
PropertyValue
Headwordfracturer
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\fʁak.ty.ʁe\
Letters9
Frequency rank#66,747
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « fracturer » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).fracturertombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « fractal » (#66,746), « fribourgeois » (#66,748), « foreuse » (#66,745). Parmi 3,276 lemmes en « F », « fracturer » est au #66,747. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

fracturer is uncommon French at frequency #66,747 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \fʁak.ty.ʁe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.

No generated misspelling entries exist for fracturer in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is fracturer, spelled F-R-A-C-T-U-R-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Rompre, briser avec violence.
  2. 2
    Rompre, briser avec violence.
  3. 3
    Blesser par une fracture.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how fracturer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. « fracturer » pour « briser », n’est pas français. Mais on dit « fracture », substantif féminin ; et « fracturé, ée », adjectif.
  2. si les cavernes sont plus nombreuses dans les roches calcaires que dans les autres roches, cela ne tient pas seulement à leur nature plus soluble, mais bien aussi à leur nature plus cassante et peu flexible ; circonstances qui font qu’elles ont dû se fracturer bien plus souvent que les roches schisteuses, au moindre soulèvement, quelque faible qu’il ait é…

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "fracturer"?
"fracturer" is spelled F-R-A-C-T-U-R-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \fʁak.ty.ʁe\.
What does "fracturer" mean?
As a verb, "fracturer" means: Rompre, briser avec violence.
How do you pronounce "fracturer"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "fracturer" is \fʁak.ty.ʁe\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "fracturer", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list