degré Kelvin
\də.ɡʁe kɛl.vɛ̃\
The verdict
“degré Kelvin” 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
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Kelvin ; le symbole de cette unité était °K.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | degré Kelvin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \də.ɡʁe kɛl.vɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “degré Kelvin” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for degré Kelvin is 12 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \də.ɡʁe kɛl.vɛ̃\. 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: "Kelvin ; le symbole de cette unité était °K.".
No misspelling variants are generated for degré Kelvin in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 degré Kelvin, spelled D-E-G-R-É- -K-E-L-V-I-N.
Definition
- 1Kelvin ; le symbole de cette unité était °K.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “degré Kelvin”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is D-E-G-R-É- -K-E-L-V-I-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \də.ɡʁe kɛl.vɛ̃\ (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.