torpilleur
\tɔʁ.pi.jœʁ\
The verdict
“torpilleur” is uncommon French (frequency #71,968 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,968
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Navire léger et rapide qui a pour mission spéciale de torpiller. Ce type de navire de guerre spécialisé a aujourd'hui disparu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-torpilleur · torpilleur · French
torpilleur · rank #71,968 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,968
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH titrisation
Nearest frequency peer: titrisation (-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 « torpilleur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- thraces
thraces
28,037 corpus weight
- titrisation
titrisation
28,034 corpus weight
- torpilleur
torpilleur
28,033 corpus weight
- torrentielle
torrentielle
28,032 corpus weight
- Toula
Toula
28,031 corpus weight
- tourteaux
tourteaux
28,030 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « torpilleur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | torpilleur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɔʁ.pi.jœʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #71,968 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « torpilleur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
torpilleur is uncommon French at frequency #71,968 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tɔʁ.pi.jœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for torpilleur in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is torpilleur, spelled T-O-R-P-I-L-L-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Navire léger et rapide qui a pour mission spéciale de torpiller. Ce type de navire de guerre spécialisé a aujourd'hui disparu.
- 2Officier ou marin chargé de la manœuvre des torpilles.
- 3Celui qui fait échouer quelque chose.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how torpilleur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un des petits torpilleurs qui s’étaient empannés près de la côte, démarra brutalement, piqua vers le large en faisant des zigzags, laissant derrière lui un profond sillage.
Les canons et les fusils, les torpilleurs et les cuirassés, la poudre et la dynamite, la fumée et le massacre emportent des milliards, des sommes plus que suffisantes à nourrir tout ce que l’Europe compte de faméliques et de va-nu-pieds.
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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