modificateur
\mɔ.di.fi.ka.tœʁ\
The verdict
“modificateur” is uncommon French (frequency #97,172 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,172
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui opère des changements sans altérer les propriétés intrinsèques de la chose modifiée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-modificateur · modificateur · French
modificateur · rank #97,172 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,172
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mocassin
Nearest frequency peer: mocassin (-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 « modificateur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mimo
mimo
2,834 corpus weight
- minant
minant
2,833 corpus weight
- mocassin
mocassin
2,830 corpus weight
- modificateur
modificateur
2,829 corpus weight
- moellon
moellon
2,828 corpus weight
- Moncontour
Moncontour
2,826 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « modificateur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | modificateur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \mɔ.di.fi.ka.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #97,172 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « modificateur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
modificateur is uncommon French at frequency #97,172 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \mɔ.di.fi.ka.tœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for modificateur in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is modificateur, spelled M-O-D-I-F-I-C-A-T-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Qui opère des changements sans altérer les propriétés intrinsèques de la chose modifiée.
- 2Qui bloque ou favorise l’expression d’un autre objet.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how modificateur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il ne détruisit pas complètement les deux autres, fidèle en cela au rôle réformateur, modificateur, plutôt que révolutionnaire, imposé à ses actes par son origine.
Sur un clavier d'ordinateur, le modificateur de touche Majuscule (shift en anglais) permet aux autres touches de passer de minuscule en majuscule.
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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