kilomètre carré

/\ki.lɔ.mɛtʁ ka.ʁe\/ noun

Letters

15 characters

Language

French

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kilomètre carré is aFrenchnoun. It means: Unité dérivée du Système international (SI), représentant la surface occupée par un carré d’un kilomètre de côté, valant 10⁶ mètres carrés, dont le symbole est km². Pronounced \ki.lɔ.mɛtʁ ka.ʁe\.

Key facts for kilomètre carré
PropertyValue
Headwordkilomètre carré
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ki.lɔ.mɛtʁ ka.ʁe\
Letters15
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

kilomètre carré is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for kilomètre carré is 15 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ki.lɔ.mɛtʁ ka.ʁe\. 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: "Unité dérivée du Système international (SI), représentant la surface occupée par un carré d’un kilomètre de côté, valant 10⁶ mètres carrés, dont le symbole est km².".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for kilomètre carré in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 kilomètre carré, spelled K-I-L-O-M-È-T-R-E- -C-A-R-R-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Unité dérivée du Système international (SI), représentant la surface occupée par un carré d’un kilomètre de côté, valant 10⁶ mètres carrés, dont le symbole est km².

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "kilomètre carré"?
"kilomètre carré" is spelled K-I-L-O-M-È-T-R-E- -C-A-R-R-É. The IPA pronunciation is \ki.lɔ.mɛtʁ ka.ʁe\.
What does "kilomètre carré" mean?
As a noun, "kilomètre carré" means: Unité dérivée du Système international (SI), représentant la surface occupée par un carré d’un kilomètre de côté, valant 10⁶ mètres carrés, dont le symbole est km².
How do you pronounce "kilomètre carré"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "kilomètre carré" is \ki.lɔ.mɛtʁ ka.ʁe\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "kilomètre carré" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.