colorimétrie
\kɔ.lɔ.ʁi.me.tʁi\
The verdict
“colorimétrie” is uncommon French (frequency #81,011 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,011
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Science de la mesure des couleurs.
Corpus desk
Index FR-colorimetrie · colorimétrie · French
colorimétrie · rank #81,011 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,011
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Collonges
Nearest frequency peer: Collonges (-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 « colorimétrie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- collapse
collapse
18,993 corpus weight
- Collonges
Collonges
18,991 corpus weight
- colorimétrie
colorimétrie
18,990 corpus weight
- comb
comb
18,989 corpus weight
- comprimée
comprimée
18,988 corpus weight
- comptabilis…
comptabilisant
18,987 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « colorimétrie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | colorimétrie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.lɔ.ʁi.me.tʁi\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #81,011 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « colorimétrie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
colorimétrie is uncommon French at frequency #81,011 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ.lɔ.ʁi.me.tʁi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for colorimétrie, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is colorimétrie, spelled C-O-L-O-R-I-M-É-T-R-I-E.
Definition
- 1Science de la mesure des couleurs.
- 2Analyse utilisant la mesure des couleurs.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how colorimétrie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La colorimétrie, en chimie, consiste à envoyer un faisceau lumineux de lumière monochromatique au travers d’une cuve contenant une solution colorée et à mesurer la lumière absorbée par la solution.
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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