radar automatique
\ʁa.da.ʁ‿o.tɔ.ma.tik\
The verdict
“radar automatique” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Appareil destiné à mesurer la vitesse des véhicules (en général couplé avec un appareil photographique équipé d’un flash), utilisé par les forces de l’ordre lors des contrôles de vitesse, ou instal...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | radar automatique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁa.da.ʁ‿o.tɔ.ma.tik\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “radar automatique” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for radar automatique is 17 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁa.da.ʁ‿o.tɔ.ma.tik\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Appareil destiné à mesurer la vitesse des véhicules (en général couplé avec un appareil photographique équipé d’un flash), utilisé par les forces de l’ordre lors des contrôles de vitesse, ou instal...".
No misspelling variants are generated for radar automatique in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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 radar automatique, spelled R-A-D-A-R- -A-U-T-O-M-A-T-I-Q-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Appareil destiné à mesurer la vitesse des véhicules (en général couplé avec un appareil photographique équipé d’un flash), utilisé par les forces de l’ordre lors des contrôles de vitesse, ou installés et actifs en permanence dans des cabines automatiques (→ voir cinémomètre). Le passage d'un véhicule en excès de vitesse, déclenche la prise de photographie de ce véhicule.
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.
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- The one correct French spelling is R-A-D-A-R- -A-U-T-O-M-A-T-I-Q-U-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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