onduleur
\ɔ̃.dy.lœʁ\
The verdict
“onduleur” is uncommon French (frequency #89,985 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,985
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Appareil destiné à transformer un courant continu en courant alternatif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-onduleur · onduleur · French
onduleur · rank #89,985 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,985
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH Olav
Nearest frequency peer: Olav (-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 « onduleur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Octeville
Octeville
10,019 corpus weight
- Okanagan
Okanagan
10,018 corpus weight
- Olav
Olav
10,017 corpus weight
- onduleur
onduleur
10,016 corpus weight
- organolepti…
organoleptiques
10,015 corpus weight
- oriflamme
oriflamme
10,014 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « onduleur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | onduleur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔ̃.dy.lœʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #89,985 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « onduleur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
onduleur is uncommon French at frequency #89,985 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɔ̃.dy.lœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for onduleur, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is onduleur, spelled O-N-D-U-L-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Appareil destiné à transformer un courant continu en courant alternatif.
- 2Alimentation sans interruption, dispositif qui permet de fournir à un système électrique ou électronique une alimentation électrique stable.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how onduleur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les onduleurs fonctionnent autant sur les voitures électriques que sur celles à essence et permettent d'alimenter en courant d'autres appareils électriques.
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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