torpilleur
\tɔʁ.pi.jœʁ\
The verdict
“torpilleur” is uncommon French (frequency #71,968 among 164,488 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,968
- frequency rank, French
- 164,488
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Navire léger et rapide qui a pour mission spéciale de torpiller. Ce type de navire de guerre spécialisé a aujourd'hui disparu.
| 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) |
Where “torpilleur” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
torpilleur is uncommon French at frequency #71,968 among 164,488 “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.
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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Using “torpilleur”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is T-O-R-P-I-L-L-E-U-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.