machine à calculer
\ma.ʃi.n‿a kal.ky.le\
The verdict
“machine à calculer” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Appareil mécanique, électromécanique puis plus récemment électronique destiné à réaliser des opérations mathématiques.
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Index FR-machine-a-calculer · machine à calculer · French
machine à calculer · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 18 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | machine à calculer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.ʃi.n‿a kal.ky.le\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « machine à calculer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
machine à calculer is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ma.ʃi.n‿a kal.ky.le\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Appareil mécanique, électromécanique puis plus récemment électronique destiné à réaliser des opérations mathématiques.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for machine à calculer in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is machine à calculer, spelled M-A-C-H-I-N-E- -À- -C-A-L-C-U-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Appareil mécanique, électromécanique puis plus récemment électronique destiné à réaliser des opérations mathématiques.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.