degré Kelvin
\də.ɡʁe kɛl.vɛ̃\
The verdict
“degré Kelvin” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Kelvin ; le symbole de cette unité était °K.
Corpus desk
Index FR-degre-kelvin · degré Kelvin · French
degré Kelvin · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "D" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| 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) |
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Rare enough to double-check
degré Kelvin is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \də.ɡʁe kɛl.vɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how degré Kelvin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Depuis la 13ᵉ Conférence générale des poids et mesures de 1967, le degré Kelvin (°K) est devenu le kelvin.
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.