locomotive
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#16,172
in French word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
locomotive is aFrenchnoun. It means: Machine actionnée par la vapeur, le fioul ou l’électricité, montée sur roues, qui sert à la traction de voitures et/ou de wagons placée sur une voie ferrée, ou rarement sur route. Pronounced \lo.ko.mɔ.tiv\. Often confused with locomotives and locomotion.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | locomotive |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lo.ko.mɔ.tiv\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #16,172 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for locomotive is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \lo.ko.mɔ.tiv\. Corpus data places it at rank #16,172 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for locomotive, with forms such as "lcoomotive", "llocomotive", and "loccomotive". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "locomotives", "locomotion", 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 locomotive, spelled L-O-C-O-M-O-T-I-V-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Machine actionnée par la vapeur, le fioul ou l’électricité, montée sur roues, qui sert à la traction de voitures et/ou de wagons placée sur une voie ferrée, ou rarement sur route.
- 2Personne, physique ou morale, dont le charisme ou les facultés lui permettent d'influer fortement sur le comportement d’une partie non négligeable de son entourage.
- 3Meuble représentant l’engin du même nom dans les armoiries. C’est une figure entrée récemment dans le corpus héraldique. Elle est généralement représentée par une locomotive à vapeur sans panache de fumée, orientée à dextre et posé en fasce. Certains auteurs précisent ancienne pour distinguer une locomotive à vapeur d’une électrique ou diésel moderne. À rapprocher de TGV et wagonnet.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: lcoomotive,llocomotive,loccomotive,locmootive,locommotive,locomoitve,locomotiev,locomotivve,locomottive,locomotvie,locomtoive,locoomtive,loocmotive,olcomotive
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for locomotive
Misspelling Variants of "locomotive"
Frequency rank: #16,172 in French
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