transpondeur
\tʁɑ̃s.pɔ̃.dœʁ\
The verdict
“transpondeur” is uncommon French (frequency #54,968 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,968
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Appareil émetteur-récepteur dont la fonction est de retransmettre les signaux reçus.
Corpus desk
Index FR-transpondeur · transpondeur · French
transpondeur · rank #54,968 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,968
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH transmutation
Nearest frequency peer: transmutation (-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 « transpondeur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tranchantes
tranchantes
45,036 corpus weight
- tranquilité
tranquilité
45,035 corpus weight
- transmutati…
transmutation
45,034 corpus weight
- transpondeur
transpondeur
45,033 corpus weight
- transsexuels
transsexuels
45,032 corpus weight
- travaillero…
travaillerons
45,031 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « transpondeur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | transpondeur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʁɑ̃s.pɔ̃.dœʁ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #54,968 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « transpondeur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
transpondeur is uncommon French at frequency #54,968 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tʁɑ̃s.pɔ̃.dœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for transpondeur in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 transpondeur, spelled T-R-A-N-S-P-O-N-D-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Appareil émetteur-récepteur dont la fonction est de retransmettre les signaux reçus.
- 2Capteur de fréquences qui déclenche une étape suivante lorsqu'il a identifié le signal pour lequel il est conçu.
- 3Puce électronique, ou puce RFID d'identification et de repérage des animaux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how transpondeur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il a également affirmé que le drone volait «avec des transpondeurs éteints» et avait violé «la zone du régime provisoire d'utilisation de l'espace aérien établie pour mener l'opération militaire spéciale» en Ukraine, ce qui a entraîné son interception.
Synonyms
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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