rétroprojecteur
\ʁe.tʁɔ.pʁɔ.ʒɛk.tœʁ\
The verdict
“rétroprojecteur” is uncommon French (frequency #95,288 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,288
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Projecteur de transparents.
Corpus desk
Index FR-retroprojecteur · rétroprojecteur · French
rétroprojecteur · rank #95,288 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,288
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH résulteraient
Nearest frequency peer: résulteraient (-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 « rétroprojecteur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- réimprimée
réimprimée
4,716 corpus weight
- répéteur
répéteur
4,715 corpus weight
- résulteraie…
résulteraient
4,714 corpus weight
- rétroprojec…
rétroprojecteur
4,713 corpus weight
- rétrécis
rétrécis
4,712 corpus weight
- révocatoire
révocatoire
4,711 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rétroprojecteur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rétroprojecteur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁe.tʁɔ.pʁɔ.ʒɛk.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Frequency rank | #95,288 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rétroprojecteur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rétroprojecteur is uncommon French at frequency #95,288 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁe.tʁɔ.pʁɔ.ʒɛk.tœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Projecteur de transparents.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for rétroprojecteur, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is rétroprojecteur, spelled R-É-T-R-O-P-R-O-J-E-C-T-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Projecteur de transparents.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how rétroprojecteur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le truc fonctionnait avec un rétroprojecteur dedans.
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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