machine virtuelle
The verdict
“machine virtuelle” 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
- 17
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Simulation, sur un ordinateur physique, d’un ordinateur sur lequel on peut installer un système d’exploitation, permettant à différents utilisateurs, pouvant éventuellement avoir besoin de systèmes...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | machine virtuelle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.ʃin viʁ.tɥɛl\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “machine virtuelle” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for machine virtuelle is 17 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ma.ʃin viʁ.tɥɛl\. 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: "Simulation, sur un ordinateur physique, d’un ordinateur sur lequel on peut installer un système d’exploitation, permettant à différents utilisateurs, pouvant éventuellement avoir besoin de systèmes...".
No misspelling variants are generated for machine virtuelle 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 machine virtuelle, spelled M-A-C-H-I-N-E- -V-I-R-T-U-E-L-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Simulation, sur un ordinateur physique, d’un ordinateur sur lequel on peut installer un système d’exploitation, permettant à différents utilisateurs, pouvant éventuellement avoir besoin de systèmes d’exploitation différents, d’utiliser en même temps la même machine physique, tout en ayant l’impression d’utiliser une machine qui leur est réservée.
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Using “machine virtuelle”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is M-A-C-H-I-N-E- -V-I-R-T-U-E-L-L-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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