résonateur
\ʁe.zɔ.na.tœʁ\
The verdict
“résonateur” is uncommon French (frequency #85,251 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,251
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Appareil ou dispositif qui sert à amplifier le son.
Corpus desk
Index FR-resonateur · résonateur · French
résonateur · rank #85,251 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,251
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH résistaient
Nearest frequency peer: résistaient (-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 « résonateur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- rémanence
rémanence
14,754 corpus weight
- réquisition…
réquisitionnée
14,752 corpus weight
- résistaient
résistaient
14,751 corpus weight
- résonateur
résonateur
14,750 corpus weight
- sablée
sablée
14,748 corpus weight
- sacramentel…
sacramentelle
14,747 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « résonateur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | résonateur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁe.zɔ.na.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #85,251 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « résonateur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
résonateur is uncommon French at frequency #85,251 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁe.zɔ.na.tœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for résonateur, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is résonateur, spelled R-É-S-O-N-A-T-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Appareil ou dispositif qui sert à amplifier le son.
- 2Appareil servant à analyser les sons.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how résonateur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des étudiants mettent au point un résonateur en bois et en peau, créant six instruments de tailles et de sonorités différentes, testés et améliorés par plusieurs percussionnistes.
Les voix diffèrent selon la dimension des plis vocaux et selon l’impact des résonateurs que sont la gorge, la bouche et les fosses nasales.
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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