pulsar

/\pyl.saʁ\/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#60,305

in French word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

pulsar is aFrenchnoun. It means: Étoile à neutrons en rotation rapide sur elle-même et émettant des ondes radio à intervalles réguliers. C’est ce qui reste d’une étoile supermassive après son explosion en hypernova, en supernova o... Pronounced \pyl.saʁ\.

Key facts for pulsar
PropertyValue
Headwordpulsar
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pyl.saʁ\
Letters6
Frequency rank#60,305
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for pulsar is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pyl.saʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #60,305 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Étoile à neutrons en rotation rapide sur elle-même et émettant des ondes radio à intervalles réguliers. C’est ce qui reste d’une étoile supermassive après son explosion en hypernova, en supernova o...".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for pulsar 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 pulsar, spelled P-U-L-S-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Étoile à neutrons en rotation rapide sur elle-même et émettant des ondes radio à intervalles réguliers. C’est ce qui reste d’une étoile supermassive après son explosion en hypernova, en supernova ou en nova.

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #60,305 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "pulsar"?
"pulsar" is spelled P-U-L-S-A-R. The IPA pronunciation is \pyl.saʁ\.
What does "pulsar" mean?
As a noun, "pulsar" means: Étoile à neutrons en rotation rapide sur elle-même et émettant des ondes radio à intervalles réguliers. C’est ce qui reste d’une étoile supermassive après son explosion en hypernova, en supernova o...
How do you pronounce "pulsar"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "pulsar" is \pyl.saʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "pulsar" 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.