réducteur de portance
\ʁe.dyk.tœʁ də pɔʁ.tɑ̃s\
The verdict
“réducteur de portance” 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
- 21
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Dispositif aérodynamique provoquant une diminution de la portance d'une voilure ou de la poussée d'un réacteur ou d'un moteur-fusée.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | réducteur de portance |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁe.dyk.tœʁ də pɔʁ.tɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 21 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “réducteur de portance” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for réducteur de portance is 21 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁe.dyk.tœʁ də pɔʁ.tɑ̃s\. 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: "Dispositif aérodynamique provoquant une diminution de la portance d'une voilure ou de la poussée d'un réacteur ou d'un moteur-fusée.".
Zero misspellings are on record for réducteur de portance in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is réducteur de portance, spelled R-É-D-U-C-T-E-U-R- -D-E- -P-O-R-T-A-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Dispositif aérodynamique provoquant une diminution de la portance d'une voilure ou de la poussée d'un réacteur ou d'un moteur-fusée.
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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-D-U-C-T-E-U-R- -D-E- -P-O-R-T-A-N-C-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.