percolateur
\pɛʁ.kɔ.la.tœʁ\
The verdict
“percolateur” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Appareil servant à la lixiviation de diverses substances, généralement des végétaux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-percolateur · percolateur · French
percolateur · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | percolateur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɛʁ.kɔ.la.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « percolateur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
percolateur is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɛʁ.kɔ.la.tœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
percolateur has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is percolateur, spelled P-E-R-C-O-L-A-T-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Appareil servant à la lixiviation de diverses substances, généralement des végétaux.
- 2Grand récipient muni d’une poignée, sur lequel est monté un filtre qui permet de préparer du café selon le processus de lixiviation, de l’eau très chaude à travers le café moulu, et utilisé pour une consommation de café en grande quantité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how percolateur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je vis, sur le comptoir de la salle éteinte, une discrète flamme de gaz brûler sous le percolateur […].
Un bon café, Blake veut dire un vraiment bon, est un miracle né de la collaboration intime d’un excellent grain, ici un Nicaragua fraîchement torréfié, à la mouture fine, d’une eau filtrée et adoucie et d’un percolateur, dans ce cas précis un Cimbali, nettoyé chaque jour.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.