pulsar
\pyl.saʁ\
The verdict
“pulsar” is uncommon French (frequency #60,305 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,305
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 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...
Corpus desk
Index FR-pulsar · pulsar · French
pulsar · rank #60,305 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,305
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH présentèrent
Nearest frequency peer: présentèrent (-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 « pulsar »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- préparerait
préparerait
39,698 corpus weight
- présentèrent
présentèrent
39,697 corpus weight
- pulsar
pulsar
39,696 corpus weight
- puppy
puppy
39,695 corpus weight
- pédiatres
pédiatres
39,694 corpus weight
- pénates
pénates
39,693 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pulsar » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pulsar |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pyl.saʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #60,305 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pulsar » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pulsar is uncommon French at frequency #60,305 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pyl.saʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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...".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for pulsar, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is pulsar, spelled P-U-L-S-A-R.
Definition
- 1Étoile 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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pulsar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En 1967, âgée de 24 ans, la Nord-Irlandaise met en évidence le premier pulsar, étoile à neutrons émettant un fort rayonnement électromagnétique.
D’autres pulsars « ultrarapides » ont été découverts depuis.
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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