réacteur nucléaire
\ʁe.ak.tœʁ ny.kle.ɛʁ\
The verdict
“réacteur nucléaire” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Dispositif permettant de produire des réactions de fission contrôlées.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | réacteur nucléaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁe.ak.tœʁ ny.kle.ɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “réacteur nucléaire” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
réacteur nucléaire is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁe.ak.tœʁ ny.kle.ɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Dispositif permettant de produire des réactions de fission contrôlées.".
Zero misspellings are on record for réacteur nucléaire in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 réacteur nucléaire, spelled R-É-A-C-T-E-U-R- -N-U-C-L-É-A-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Dispositif permettant de produire des réactions de fission contrôlées.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct French spelling is R-É-A-C-T-E-U-R- -N-U-C-L-É-A-I-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.