pendulaire
\pɑ̃.dy.lɛʁ\
The verdict
“pendulaire” is uncommon French (frequency #73,428 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,428
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui se rapporte au pendule, affecté d’un mouvement oscillatoire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pendulaire · pendulaire · French
pendulaire · rank #73,428 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,428
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pendues
Nearest frequency peer: pendues (-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 « pendulaire »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- PdCI
PdCI
26,577 corpus weight
- penchera
penchera
26,575 corpus weight
- pendues
pendues
26,574 corpus weight
- pendulaire
pendulaire
26,573 corpus weight
- percez
percez
26,571 corpus weight
- percheron
percheron
26,570 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pendulaire » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pendulaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pɑ̃.dy.lɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #73,428 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pendulaire » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pendulaire is uncommon French at frequency #73,428 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pɑ̃.dy.lɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for pendulaire, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is pendulaire, spelled P-E-N-D-U-L-A-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Qui se rapporte au pendule, affecté d’un mouvement oscillatoire.
- 2Qui oscille sur son axe.
- 3Qui fait un va-et-vient régulier, et en particulier qui se déplace quotidiennement entre le centre et la périphérie urbaine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pendulaire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’éclairage, toujours le même, était mesuré avant chaque séance, de façon à ce que nulle saute d’exposition ne vienne jamais altérer la pureté pendulaire de l’expérience en cours.
Mouvement pendulaire.
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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