percuteur

/\pɛʁ.ky.tœʁ\/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#75,996

in French word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

percuteur is aFrenchnoun. It means: Pièce agissant par percussion. Pronounced \pɛʁ.ky.tœʁ\.

Key facts for percuteur
PropertyValue
Headwordpercuteur
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pɛʁ.ky.tœʁ\
Letters9
Frequency rank#75,996
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of percuteur in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for percuteur is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɛʁ.ky.tœʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #75,996 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for percuteur in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is percuteur, spelled P-E-R-C-U-T-E-U-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pièce agissant par percussion.
  2. 2
    En particulier, pièce qui, dans les armes à feu, détermine par son choc sur la capsule de fulminate l’inflammation de la poudre.
  3. 3
    Outil (fait de bois, d’os ou de pierre) servant à frapper un bloc de pierre pour en détacher des éclats.

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #75,996 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "percuteur"?
"percuteur" is spelled P-E-R-C-U-T-E-U-R. The IPA pronunciation is \pɛʁ.ky.tœʁ\.
What does "percuteur" mean?
As a noun, "percuteur" means: Pièce agissant par percussion.
How do you pronounce "percuteur"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "percuteur" is \pɛʁ.ky.tœʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "percuteur" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.