sécateur
\se.ka.tœʁ\
The verdict
“sécateur” is uncommon French (frequency #74,415 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,415
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Outil de jardinage, se présentant comme de forts ciseaux à ressort dont une lame est tranchante et l’autre sert de point d’appui et qui sert à tailler les tiges, les petites branches.
Corpus desk
Index FR-secateur · sécateur · French
sécateur · rank #74,415 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,415
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH synaptique
Nearest frequency peer: synaptique (-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 « sécateur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- surchauffer
surchauffer
25,589 corpus weight
- surélever
surélever
25,588 corpus weight
- synaptique
synaptique
25,587 corpus weight
- sécateur
sécateur
25,586 corpus weight
- Ségovie
Ségovie
25,585 corpus weight
- Tarnac
Tarnac
25,583 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sécateur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sécateur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \se.ka.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #74,415 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sécateur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sécateur is uncommon French at frequency #74,415 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \se.ka.tœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for sécateur in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is sécateur, spelled S-É-C-A-T-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Outil de jardinage, se présentant comme de forts ciseaux à ressort dont une lame est tranchante et l’autre sert de point d’appui et qui sert à tailler les tiges, les petites branches.
- 2Outil utilisé par les volaillers pour couper les carcasses et les morceaux des poulets.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sécateur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La taille des haies au sécateur donne un aspect beaucoup plus naturel à la végétation qu’en utilisant un taille-haie.
L’homme était assis sur la tête d’un saule et, muni d’un sécateur, il abattait les branches.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).