mémoire
[me.mwaʁ]
The verdict
“mémoire” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Andenken, Erinnerung, Gedächtnis
Corpus desk
Index DE-memoire · mémoire · German
mémoire · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mémoire |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [me.mwaʁ] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „mémoire“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
mémoire is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [me.mwaʁ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Andenken, Erinnerung, Gedächtnis".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for mémoire, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is mémoire, spelled M-É-M-O-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Andenken, Erinnerung, Gedächtnis
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.