osculateur
French, adjective\ɔs.ky.la.tœʁ\
osculateur is spelled O-S-C-U-L-A-T-E-U-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 38 million words in written French, the 196,291st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Osculateur is a French adjective meaning “osculating” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Relatif à une courbe, une surface d’une nature déterminée, qui a le contact d’ordre le plus élevé possible en…”.
What does osculateur mean in English?
adjective
- 1
osculating
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Relatif à une courbe, une surface d’une nature déterminée, qui a le contact d’ordre le plus élevé possible en un point d’une courbe donnée, d’une surface donnée.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of osculateur
- osculatrice feminine
- osculateurs masculine plural
- osculatrices feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce osculateur?
- \ɔs.ky.la.tœʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to osculateur
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is osculateur in French?
osculateur appears about once in every 38 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).