hélicoptère
Letters
11 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,448
in French word usage
Misspellings
17
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
hélicoptère is aFrenchnoun. It means: Aéronef muni d’une ou de plusieurs hélices horizontales et le plus souvent d’une hélice verticale, plus petite, au bout de sa queue, décollant à la verticale et pouvant voler de manière stationnair... Pronounced ^((h muet))\e.li.kɔp.tɛʁ\. It ranks #7,448 in French word frequency. Often confused with hélicoptères.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hélicoptère |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h muet))\e.li.kɔp.tɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #7,448 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for hélicoptère is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as ^((h muet))\e.li.kɔp.tɛʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #7,448 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 17 documented wrong-spelling variants for hélicoptère, with forms such as "helicoptere", "hhélicoptère", and "hléicoptère". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "hélicoptères", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is hélicoptère, spelled H-É-L-I-C-O-P-T-È-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Aéronef muni d’une ou de plusieurs hélices horizontales et le plus souvent d’une hélice verticale, plus petite, au bout de sa queue, décollant à la verticale et pouvant voler de manière stationnaire ; giravion dont la ou les voilures tournantes assurent la sustentation et la translation pendant toute la durée du vol.
- 2Graine munie d’une ailette qui ralentit sa chute et facilite ainsi sa dissémination par le vent (en particulier l’akène ou disamare de l’érable).
- 3Sorte d'engin de lissage ou de talochage des chapes et des dalles de béton.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: helicoptere,hhélicoptère,hléicoptère,héilcoptère,hélcioptère,héliccoptère,hélicopptère,hélicoptrèe,hélicopttère,hélicoptèer,hélicoptèrre,hélicopètre,hélicotpère,hélicpotère,héliocptère,héllicoptère,éhlicoptère
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for hélicoptère
Misspelling Variants of "hélicoptère"
Frequency rank: #7,448 in French
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