logarithme
\lɔ.ɡa.ʁitm\
The verdict
“logarithme” is uncommon French (frequency #52,798 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,798
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nombre pris dans une progression arithmétique et correspondant à un autre nombre pris dans une progression géométrique. Symbole : log.
Corpus desk
Index FR-logarithme · logarithme · French
logarithme · rank #52,798 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,798
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Lodève
Nearest frequency peer: Lodève (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « logarithme »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
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Lison
47,206 corpus weight
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lobbyisme
47,205 corpus weight
- Lodève
Lodève
47,204 corpus weight
- logarithme
logarithme
47,203 corpus weight
- Lohan
Lohan
47,202 corpus weight
- longitudina…
longitudinales
47,201 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « logarithme » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | logarithme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lɔ.ɡa.ʁitm\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #52,798 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « logarithme » en français
Rare enough to double-check
logarithme is uncommon French at frequency #52,798 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \lɔ.ɡa.ʁitm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for logarithme, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is logarithme, spelled L-O-G-A-R-I-T-H-M-E.
Definition
- 1Nombre pris dans une progression arithmétique et correspondant à un autre nombre pris dans une progression géométrique. Symbole : log.
- 2Fonction qui permet une telle correspondance.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how logarithme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— Ceci est plus hébétant au fond, disait Lucien à Coffe, que de calculer le chiffre d’un logarithme qu’on veut pousser à quatorze décimales.
La guerre était debout dans le lycée, le tambour étouffait à mes oreilles la voix des maîtres, et la voix mystérieuse des livres ne nous parlait qu’un langage froid et pédantesque. Les logarithmes et les tropes n’étaient à nos yeux que des degrés pour monter à l’étoile de la Légion d’honneur, la plus belle étoile des cieux pour des enfants.
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); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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