stimulateur

\sti.my.la.tœʁ\

/\sti.my.la.tœʁ\/ adj

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The verdict

“stimulateur” is uncommon French (frequency #61,913 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#61,913
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui stimule, stimulant.

Corpus desk

Index FR-stimulateur · stimulateur · French

stimulateur · rank #61,913 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #61,913
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH stimulantes

Nearest frequency peer: stimulantes (-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 « stimulateur »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « stimulateur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for stimulateur
PropertyValue
Headwordstimulateur
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\sti.my.la.tœʁ\
Letters11
Frequency rank#61,913
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « stimulateur » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.stimulateurtombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « stimulantes » (#61,912), « streamers » (#61,914), « standardisées » (#61,911). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « stimulateur » est au #61,913. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

stimulateur is uncommon French at frequency #61,913 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \sti.my.la.tœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui stimule, stimulant.".

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for stimulateur, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is stimulateur, spelled S-T-I-M-U-L-A-T-E-U-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui stimule, stimulant.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how stimulateur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. L'air par son oxygène, le fluide électrique, le calorique, la lumière, sont les agents stimulateurs, les causes stimulatrices qui entretiennent la vie dans les corps organisés.

This word in other languages

stimulating(English)

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "stimulateur"?
"stimulateur" is spelled S-T-I-M-U-L-A-T-E-U-R. The IPA pronunciation is \sti.my.la.tœʁ\.
What does "stimulateur" mean?
As an adjective, "stimulateur" means: Qui stimule, stimulant.
How do you pronounce "stimulateur"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "stimulateur" is \sti.my.la.tœʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "stimulateur", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

stimulantes#61,912suffocation#61,920supporterai#61,922scénographe#61,886

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list