inducteur
\ɛ̃.dyk.tœʁ\
The verdict
“inducteur” is uncommon French (frequency #89,818 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,818
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui induit.
Corpus desk
Index FR-inducteur · inducteur · French
inducteur · rank #89,818 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,818
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH indicibles
Nearest frequency peer: indicibles (-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 « inducteur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- inavoué
inavoué
10,186 corpus weight
- incandescen…
incandescentes
10,185 corpus weight
- indicibles
indicibles
10,184 corpus weight
- inducteur
inducteur
10,183 corpus weight
- infectant
infectant
10,182 corpus weight
- infléchit
infléchit
10,181 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « inducteur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | inducteur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.dyk.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #89,818 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « inducteur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
inducteur is uncommon French at frequency #89,818 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɛ̃.dyk.tœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for inducteur in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is inducteur, spelled I-N-D-U-C-T-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Qui induit.
- 2Qui induit.
- 3Qui permet l’induction en tant qu’opération mentale.
- 4Qui produit l’induction en tant que phénomène physique, électrique.
- 5Se dit de certains produits chimiques, ou de leurs associations, utilisés pour déclencher une anesthésie générale.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how inducteur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Raisonnement inducteur.
…un certain nombre de propositions données, généralement singulières ou spéciales, que nous appellerons inductrices, [conduisant] à une proposition ou à un petit nombre de propositions plus générales, appelées induites.
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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