ergomètre
\ɛʁ.ɡɔ.mɛtʁ\
The verdict
“ergomètre” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Appareil qui mesure le travail musculaire fourni lors d’un exercice physique particulier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ergometre · ergomètre · French
ergomètre · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "E" 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 | ergomètre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛʁ.ɡɔ.mɛtʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
ergomètre is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛʁ.ɡɔ.mɛtʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Appareil qui mesure le travail musculaire fourni lors d’un exercice physique particulier.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for ergomètre in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 ergomètre, spelled E-R-G-O-M-È-T-R-E.
Definition
- 1Appareil qui mesure le travail musculaire fourni lors d’un exercice physique particulier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ergomètre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
D’autres épreuves sont pratiquées à l’ergomètre, sur un bicycle ergométrique ou sur un tapis roulant.
Les ergomètres les plus courants sont ceux à bicyclette, à manivelle et à ruban transporteur.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.