satellitaire
\sa.te.li.tɛʁ\
The verdict
“satellitaire” is uncommon French (frequency #52,981 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,981
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui provient d’un satellite.
Corpus desk
Index FR-satellitaire · satellitaire · French
satellitaire · rank #52,981 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,981
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Sartrouville
Nearest frequency peer: Sartrouville (-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 « satellitaire »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Sandoz
Sandoz
47,023 corpus weight
- sapphire
sapphire
47,022 corpus weight
- Sartrouville
Sartrouville
47,021 corpus weight
- satellitaire
satellitaire
47,020 corpus weight
- sauvegardés
sauvegardés
47,019 corpus weight
- schizo
schizo
47,018 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « satellitaire » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | satellitaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \sa.te.li.tɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #52,981 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « satellitaire » en français
Rare enough to double-check
satellitaire is uncommon French at frequency #52,981 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \sa.te.li.tɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
satellitaire doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is satellitaire, spelled S-A-T-E-L-L-I-T-A-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Qui provient d’un satellite.
- 2Qui a un caractère satellite, accessoire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how satellitaire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Regardons l’Allemagne par exemple, où la cartographie libre est devenue un véritable phénomène de société. Le zoo de Berlin (Zoologischer Garten Berlin) est bien entendu renseigné dans Google Maps, mais il n’a que peu de détails (alors même que, contrairement à OpenStreetMap, il dispose de cartes satellitaires).
S’ils ne sont plus présents dans le discours kantien que dans des notes satellitaires ou sous la forme d’hypothèses vite écartées, c’est que le point de comparaison qu’ils incarnaient a été en quelque sorte intériorisé, humanisé et « terrianisé » sous la forme d’une distance du sujet humain à lui-même, constitutive de son point de vue.
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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