vibrateur
\vi.bʁa.tœʁ\
The verdict
“vibrateur” is uncommon French (frequency #81,675 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,675
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Appareil qui produit des vibrations ou qui transmet des vibrations.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vibrateur · vibrateur · French
vibrateur · rank #81,675 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,675
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH Viatcheslav
Nearest frequency peer: Viatcheslav (-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 « vibrateur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Vap
Vap
18,331 corpus weight
- Viatcheslav
Viatcheslav
18,327 corpus weight
- vibrateur
vibrateur
18,326 corpus weight
- vindicative
vindicative
18,325 corpus weight
- Vinet
Vinet
18,324 corpus weight
- vocabulaires
vocabulaires
18,322 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « vibrateur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vibrateur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vi.bʁa.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #81,675 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « vibrateur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
vibrateur is uncommon French at frequency #81,675 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \vi.bʁa.tœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Appareil qui produit des vibrations ou qui transmet des vibrations.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for vibrateur, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 vibrateur, spelled V-I-B-R-A-T-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Appareil qui produit des vibrations ou qui transmet des vibrations.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vibrateur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À l’arrivée, les vibrations envoyées par le fil télégraphique vont animer les vibrateurs correspondant aux languettes du départ.
Dans le tamis vibrant électrique Hummer, les vibrations sont provoquées par voie électro-magnétique. Elles se produisent perpendiculairement à la surface tamisante et elles sont déterminées par quatre vibrateurs actionnant à chaque coin le cadre sur lequel la toile est tendue.
Synonyms
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).