venturi
\vɑ̃.ty.ʁi\
The verdict
“venturi” is uncommon French (frequency #51,805 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,805
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rétrécissement d'un tube engendrant une augmentation de la vitesse d'écoulement du fluide y circulant conjointement à une diminution de la pression.
Corpus desk
Index FR-venturi · venturi · French
venturi · rank #51,805 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,805
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH viagère
Nearest frequency peer: viagère (+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 « venturi »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- vanités
vanités
48,199 corpus weight
- vat
vat
48,198 corpus weight
- venturi
venturi
48,196 corpus weight
- viagère
viagère
48,195 corpus weight
- villain
villain
48,193 corpus weight
- Villedieu
Villedieu
48,192 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « venturi » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | venturi |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vɑ̃.ty.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #51,805 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « venturi » en français
Rare enough to double-check
venturi is uncommon French at frequency #51,805 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \vɑ̃.ty.ʁi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
venturi doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is venturi, spelled V-E-N-T-U-R-I.
Definition
- 1Rétrécissement d'un tube engendrant une augmentation de la vitesse d'écoulement du fluide y circulant conjointement à une diminution de la pression.
- 2Rétrécissement de la buse entourant le gicleur dans un carburateur.
- 3Tube servant à mesurer la vitesse d’un fluide ou son débit par mesure de la dépression.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how venturi appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le liquide est injecté au moyen d'une ou plusieurs buses, soit juste avant le col d'un venturi, soit à la paroi du venturi à la hauteur du col. Dans tous les cas , le liquide se trouve pulvérisé en fines gouttelettes par la suite de la grande vitesse du gaz au col du venturi.
Le système automatique du carburateur Cozette est constitué par un venturi, ou émulsionneur, placé perpendiculairement à la base principale jouant le rôle de multiplicateur de dépression.
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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