machiniste
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#51,588
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
machiniste is aFrenchnoun. It means: Celui ou celle qui place ou déplace des décors, des machines de théâtre. Pronounced \ma.ʃi.nist\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | machiniste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.ʃi.nist\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #51,588 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for machiniste is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ma.ʃi.nist\. Corpus data places it at rank #51,588 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for machiniste in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 machiniste, spelled M-A-C-H-I-N-I-S-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Celui ou celle qui place ou déplace des décors, des machines de théâtre.
- 2Technicien ou technicienne responsable des systèmes de fixation de la caméra et des déplacements d’appareils effectués avec ces systèmes.
- 3Conducteur d’une machine quelle qu’elle soit ; conducteur d’engins de travaux publics.
- 4Dans le langage de l’administration, conducteur d’un autobus, d’un tramway, etc.
- 5ou Conducteur d'une locomotive électrique.
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Frequency rank: #51,588 in French
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