firmware
French, noun/fœʁ.mwɛʁ/
firmware is spelled F-I-R-M-W-A-R-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 50,716th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Firmware is a French masculine noun meaning “firmware” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Micrologiciel”.
What does firmware mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinefirmware
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Micrologiciel.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of firmware
- firmwares plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce firmware?
- /fœʁ.mwɛʁ/
- /fɛʁ.mwɛʁ/
- \fiʁm.wɛʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to firmware
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is firmware in French?
firmware appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).