anémomètre

/\a.ne.mɔ.mɛtʁ\/ noun

The verdict

“anémomètre” is an uncommon French word, ranked #87,325 in French word frequency and used as a noun.

#87,325
frequency rank, French
10
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Instrument servant à mesurer la vitesse et la force du vent.

Key facts for anémomètre
PropertyValue
Headwordanémomètre
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.ne.mɔ.mɛtʁ\
Letters10
Frequency rank#87,325
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “anémomètre” sits in French frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). anémomètre lands here:

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

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for anémomètre is 10 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.ne.mɔ.mɛtʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #87,325 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Instrument servant à mesurer la vitesse et la force du vent.".

No misspelling variants are generated for anémomètre in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is anémomètre, spelled A-N-É-M-O-M-È-T-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Instrument servant à mesurer la vitesse et la force du vent.

Synonyms

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Frequency rank: #87,325 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "anémomètre"?
"anémomètre" is spelled A-N-É-M-O-M-È-T-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \a.ne.mɔ.mɛtʁ\.
What does "anémomètre" mean?
As a noun, "anémomètre" means: Instrument servant à mesurer la vitesse et la force du vent.
How do you pronounce "anémomètre"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "anémomètre" is \a.ne.mɔ.mɛtʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "anémomètre" come from?
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Using “anémomètre”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is A-N-É-M-O-M-È-T-R-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \a.ne.mɔ.mɛtʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.