fuite de mémoire
\fɥit də me.mwaʁ\
The verdict
“fuite de mémoire” 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
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Occupation croissante de la mémoire d’un ordinateur en raison de l’absence de libération d’une zone mémoire qui n’est plus utilisée.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fuite de mémoire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɥit də me.mwaʁ\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “fuite de mémoire” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for fuite de mémoire is 16 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fɥit də me.mwaʁ\. 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: "Occupation croissante de la mémoire d’un ordinateur en raison de l’absence de libération d’une zone mémoire qui n’est plus utilisée.".
No misspelling variants are generated for fuite de mémoire in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is fuite de mémoire, spelled F-U-I-T-E- -D-E- -M-É-M-O-I-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Occupation croissante de la mémoire d’un ordinateur en raison de l’absence de libération d’une zone mémoire qui n’est plus utilisée.
This word in other languages
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