vibrateur

\vi.bʁa.tœʁ\

/\vi.bʁa.tœʁ\/ noun

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

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « vibrateur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for vibrateur
PropertyValue
Headwordvibrateur
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\vi.bʁa.tœʁ\
Letters9
Frequency rank#81,675
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « vibrateur » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.vibrateurtombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « Viatcheslav » (#81,674), « vindicative » (#81,676), « Vinet » (#81,677). Parmi 2,061 lemmes en « V », « vibrateur » est au #81,675. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Appareil qui produit des vibrations ou qui transmet des vibrations.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how vibrateur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. À l’arrivée, les vibrations envoyées par le fil télégraphique vont animer les vibrateurs correspondant aux languettes du départ.
  2. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "vibrateur"?
"vibrateur" is spelled V-I-B-R-A-T-E-U-R. The IPA pronunciation is \vi.bʁa.tœʁ\.
What does "vibrateur" mean?
As a noun, "vibrateur" means: Appareil qui produit des vibrations ou qui transmet des vibrations.
How do you pronounce "vibrateur"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "vibrateur" is \vi.bʁa.tœʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "vibrateur" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "vibrateur", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list