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rotor

French, noun/ʁɔ.tɔʁ/

rotor is spelled R-O-T-O-R (5 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 33,160th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Rotor is a French masculine noun meaning “rotor” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Partie rotative d’une machine, par exemple d’un moteur électrique, d’une turbine, etc”.

What does rotor mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinerotor

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Partie rotative d’une machine, par exemple d’un moteur électrique, d’une turbine, etc. 2. Partie tournante de l’allumeur d’un moteur à explosion.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of rotor

  • rotors plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce rotor?

  • /ʁɔ.tɔʁ/
  • \ʁɔ.tɔʁ\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to rotor

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is rotor in French?

rotor appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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