candela par mètre carré
\kɑ̃.de.la paʁ mɛtʁ ka.ʁe\
The verdict
“candela par mètre carré” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 23
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Unité de mesure de la luminance du Système international, définie par l’intensité lumineuse en candelas divisée par la surface en mètres carrés, utilisée pour des sources lumineuses étendues comme ...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | candela par mètre carré |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɑ̃.de.la paʁ mɛtʁ ka.ʁe\ |
| Letters | 23 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “candela par mètre carré” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for candela par mètre carré is 23 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɑ̃.de.la paʁ mɛtʁ ka.ʁe\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Unité de mesure de la luminance du Système international, définie par l’intensité lumineuse en candelas divisée par la surface en mètres carrés, utilisée pour des sources lumineuses étendues comme ...".
No misspelling variants are generated for candela par mètre carré 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 candela par mètre carré, spelled C-A-N-D-E-L-A- -P-A-R- -M-È-T-R-E- -C-A-R-R-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Unité de mesure de la luminance du Système international, définie par l’intensité lumineuse en candelas divisée par la surface en mètres carrés, utilisée pour des sources lumineuses étendues comme des écrans. Le symbole : cd/m².
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- The one correct French spelling is C-A-N-D-E-L-A- -P-A-R- -M-È-T-R-E- -C-A-R-R-É - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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