stator
\sta.tɔʁ\
The verdict
“stator” is uncommon French (frequency #77,059 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,059
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partie fixe de nombreuses machines rotatives en particulier d'un moteur électrique, d'une turbine, d'une dynamo.
Corpus desk
Index FR-stator · stator · French
stator · rank #77,059 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,059
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH starts
Nearest frequency peer: starts (-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 « stator »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sprays
sprays
22,947 corpus weight
- starts
starts
22,943 corpus weight
- stator
stator
22,942 corpus weight
- suggérons
suggérons
22,939 corpus weight
- supplémenta…
supplémentation
22,938 corpus weight
- supprimerait
supprimerait
22,937 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « stator » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | stator |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sta.tɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #77,059 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « stator » en français
Rare enough to double-check
stator is uncommon French at frequency #77,059 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sta.tɔʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
stator doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 stator, spelled S-T-A-T-O-R.
Definition
- 1Partie fixe de nombreuses machines rotatives en particulier d'un moteur électrique, d'une turbine, d'une dynamo.
- 2Partie fixe de l’allumeur d’un moteur à explosion.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how stator appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je lui montre comment on transforme les énergies primaires en énergies secondaires, je lui dessine les turbines, le rotor, le stator, et comment tout ça crée un champ magnétique qui produit un courant électrique.
Le stator d'une machine électrique est la partie stationnaire d'un moteur électrique ou d'un alternateur.
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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