hygromètre

/\i.ɡʁɔ.mɛtʁ\/ noun

The verdict

“hygromètre” 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
10
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Instrument servant à mesurer le degré d’humidité relative ou absolue de l'air

Key facts for hygromètre
PropertyValue
Headwordhygromètre
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\i.ɡʁɔ.mɛtʁ\
Letters10
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “hygromètre” sits in French frequency

hygromètre falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words — the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for hygromètre is 10 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \i.ɡʁɔ.mɛtʁ\. 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: "Instrument servant à mesurer le degré d’humidité relative ou absolue de l'air".

No misspelling variants are generated for hygromètre 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 hygromètre, spelled H-Y-G-R-O-M-È-T-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Instrument servant à mesurer le degré d’humidité relative ou absolue de l'air

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "hygromètre"?
"hygromètre" is spelled H-Y-G-R-O-M-È-T-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \i.ɡʁɔ.mɛtʁ\.
What does "hygromètre" mean?
As a noun, "hygromètre" means: Instrument servant à mesurer le degré d’humidité relative ou absolue de l'air
How do you pronounce "hygromètre"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "hygromètre" is \i.ɡʁɔ.mɛtʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "hygromètre" come from?
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Using “hygromètre”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is H-Y-G-R-O-M-È-T-R-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \i.ɡʁɔ.mɛtʁ\ (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.