régulateur de vitesse
\ʁe.ɡy.la.tœʁ də vi.tɛs\
The verdict
“régulateur de vitesse” 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 permettant de rouler à une allure constante de son choix.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | régulateur de vitesse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁe.ɡy.la.tœʁ də vi.tɛs\ |
| Letters | 21 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “régulateur de vitesse” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for régulateur de vitesse is 21 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁe.ɡy.la.tœʁ də vi.tɛs\. 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 permettant de rouler à une allure constante de son choix.".
No misspelling variants are generated for régulateur de vitesse 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 régulateur de vitesse, spelled R-É-G-U-L-A-T-E-U-R- -D-E- -V-I-T-E-S-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Dispositif permettant de rouler à une allure constante de son choix.
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- The one correct French spelling is R-É-G-U-L-A-T-E-U-R- -D-E- -V-I-T-E-S-S-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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