altimètre
\al.ti.mɛtʁ\
The verdict
“altimètre” is uncommon French (frequency #72,903 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,903
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dispositif servant à mesurer l’altitude.
Corpus desk
Index FR-altimetre · altimètre · French
altimètre · rank #72,903 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,903
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH alternateurs
Nearest frequency peer: alternateurs (-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 « altimètre »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- aliénant
aliénant
27,101 corpus weight
- alluma
alluma
27,100 corpus weight
- alternateurs
alternateurs
27,099 corpus weight
- altimètre
altimètre
27,098 corpus weight
- ambidextre
ambidextre
27,097 corpus weight
- amino
amino
27,096 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « altimètre » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | altimètre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \al.ti.mɛtʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #72,903 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « altimètre » en français
Rare enough to double-check
altimètre is uncommon French at frequency #72,903 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \al.ti.mɛtʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
altimètre doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 French form is altimètre, spelled A-L-T-I-M-È-T-R-E.
Definition
- 1Dispositif servant à mesurer l’altitude.
- 2Appareil de mesure de la hauteur d’un objet distant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how altimètre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mon altimètre s’est détraqué, je suis tantôt ludion, tantôt scaphandrier, souvent les deux ensemble comme il convient dans notre partie : j’habite en l’air par habitude et je fouine en bas sans trop d’espoir.
Celui de gauche est un altimètre barométrique du même type que ceux que nous venons dʼévoquer.
This word in other languages
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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