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altimètre

French, noun/al.ti.mɛtʁ/

altimètre is spelled A-L-T-I-M-È-T-R-E (9 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written French, the 73,020th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Altimètre is a French masculine noun meaning “altimeter” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Dispositif servant à mesurer l’altitude”.

What does altimètre mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinealtimeter

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Dispositif servant à mesurer l’altitude. 2. Appareil de mesure de la hauteur d’un objet distant.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of altimètre

  • altimètres plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce altimètre?

  • /al.ti.mɛtʁ/
  • \al.ti.mɛtʁ\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to altimètre

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is altimètre in French?

altimètre appears about once in every 5 million words in written French.

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

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