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numeraire

noun

numeraire is spelled N-U-M-E-R-A-I-R-E: 9 letters. It appears about once in every 83 million words in written English, the 290,185th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, numeraire means “Alternative spelling of numéraire” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of numeraire is numéraires or numeraires.

How many letters and syllables are in numeraire?

Letters9: N-U-M-E-R-A-I-R-E
In writingabout once in every 83 million words; the 290,185th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is numeraire?

Numeraire appears about once in every 83 million words in written English, the 290,185th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Forms of numeraire

  • numéraires plural
  • numeraires plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does numeraire mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    Alternative spelling of numéraire.

noun

as numéraire
  1. 1

    A basic standard by which values are measured.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Numeraire in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense Translations:

LanguageWords
Frenchnuméraire
GermanStandardgut

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does numeraire come from?

From French numéraire. Doublet of numerary.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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