magnétophone
\ma.ɲe.tɔ.fɔn\
The verdict
“magnétophone” is uncommon French (frequency #51,592 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,592
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Outil permettant d’enregistrer des sons sur un support magnétique amovible.
Corpus desk
Index FR-magnetophone · magnétophone · French
magnétophone · rank #51,592 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,592
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Magdeleine
Nearest frequency peer: Magdeleine (-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 « magnétophone »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- macroéconom…
macroéconomiques
48,412 corpus weight
- mafieuse
mafieuse
48,411 corpus weight
- Magdeleine
Magdeleine
48,410 corpus weight
- magnétophone
magnétophone
48,409 corpus weight
- malfaisant
malfaisant
48,408 corpus weight
- malmenée
malmenée
48,407 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « magnétophone » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | magnétophone |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.ɲe.tɔ.fɔn\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #51,592 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « magnétophone » en français
Rare enough to double-check
magnétophone is uncommon French at frequency #51,592 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ma.ɲe.tɔ.fɔn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Outil permettant d’enregistrer des sons sur un support magnétique amovible.".
Zero misspellings are on record for magnétophone in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is magnétophone, spelled M-A-G-N-É-T-O-P-H-O-N-E.
Definition
- 1Outil permettant d’enregistrer des sons sur un support magnétique amovible.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how magnétophone appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le premier magnétophone de Poulsen utilisait un fil magnétique.
Le magnétophone a été remplacé dans le grand public par des lecteurs/enregistreurs à mémoire flash-eprom
Synonyms
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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