indicatrice
\ɛ̃.di.ka.tʁis\
The verdict
“indicatrice” is uncommon French (frequency #88,751 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,751
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Femme qui fréquente la pègre et renseigne la police.
Corpus desk
Index FR-indicatrice · indicatrice · French
indicatrice · rank #88,751 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,751
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH inconsidérée
Nearest frequency peer: inconsidérée (-2 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 « indicatrice »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- inclurait
inclurait
11,254 corpus weight
- incomplétude
incomplétude
11,253 corpus weight
- inconsidérée
inconsidérée
11,252 corpus weight
- indicatrice
indicatrice
11,250 corpus weight
- indivisibil…
indivisibilité
11,248 corpus weight
- indivisibles
indivisibles
11,247 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « indicatrice » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | indicatrice |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.di.ka.tʁis\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #88,751 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « indicatrice » en français
Rare enough to double-check
indicatrice is uncommon French at frequency #88,751 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛ̃.di.ka.tʁis\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for indicatrice, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is indicatrice, spelled I-N-D-I-C-A-T-R-I-C-E.
Definition
- 1Femme qui fréquente la pègre et renseigne la police.
- 2Fonction associée à la théorie des nombres.
- 3Figure formée par la surface des ondes lumineuses dans certains milieux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how indicatrice appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’enquête a fait un grand pas, puisque nous tenons vraisemblablement non seulement le coupable, mais encore la complice qui se fit son indicatrice.
L’indicatrice d’Euler.
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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