radioamateur
\ʁa.djo.a.ma.tœʁ\
The verdict
“radioamateur” is uncommon French (frequency #96,288 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,288
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Passionné émettant des ondes radios dans un but non lucratif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-radioamateur · radioamateur · French
radioamateur · rank #96,288 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,288
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH Racan
Nearest frequency peer: Racan (-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 « radioamateur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- quetta
quetta
3,717 corpus weight
- quitteraient
quitteraient
3,716 corpus weight
- Racan
Racan
3,714 corpus weight
- radioamateur
radioamateur
3,713 corpus weight
- ragequit
ragequit
3,712 corpus weight
- rajan
rajan
3,710 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « radioamateur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | radioamateur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁa.djo.a.ma.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #96,288 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « radioamateur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
radioamateur is uncommon French at frequency #96,288 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁa.djo.a.ma.tœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Passionné émettant des ondes radios dans un but non lucratif.".
radioamateur has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is radioamateur, spelled R-A-D-I-O-A-M-A-T-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Passionné émettant des ondes radios dans un but non lucratif.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how radioamateur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La bande inférieure adjacente (24,00-24,05 GHz) est attribuée à titre primaire au service de radioamateur et au service de radioamateur par satellite, et la bande supérieure adjacente (24,25-24,45 GHz) a récemment été autorisée pour des applications du service fixe.
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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