géostationnaire
\ʒe.ɔ.sta.sjɔ.nɛʁ\
The verdict
“géostationnaire” is uncommon French (frequency #70,694 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,694
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Immobile par rapport à un point de la Terre, mais tournant autour de celle-ci dans l’espace.
Corpus desk
Index FR-geostationnaire · géostationnaire · French
géostationnaire · rank #70,694 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,694
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-8 8 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gâteux
Nearest frequency peer: gâteux (-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 « géostationnaire »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- grêles
grêles
29,310 corpus weight
- guettait
guettait
29,309 corpus weight
- gâteux
gâteux
29,308 corpus weight
- géostationn…
géostationnaire
29,307 corpus weight
- Haenel
Haenel
29,305 corpus weight
- hager
hager
29,304 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « géostationnaire » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | géostationnaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʒe.ɔ.sta.sjɔ.nɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Frequency rank | #70,694 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « géostationnaire » en français
Rare enough to double-check
géostationnaire is uncommon French at frequency #70,694 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ʒe.ɔ.sta.sjɔ.nɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Immobile par rapport à un point de la Terre, mais tournant autour de celle-ci dans l’espace.".
No misspelling variants are generated for géostationnaire in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is géostationnaire, spelled G-É-O-S-T-A-T-I-O-N-N-A-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Immobile par rapport à un point de la Terre, mais tournant autour de celle-ci dans l’espace.
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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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