machine virtuelle

/\ma.ʃin viʁ.tɥɛl\/ noun

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...

Key facts for machine virtuelle
PropertyValue
Headwordmachine virtuelle
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ma.ʃin viʁ.tɥɛl\
Letters17
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “machine virtuelle” sits in French frequency

machine virtuelle 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 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

  1. 1
    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 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "machine virtuelle"?
"machine virtuelle" is spelled M-A-C-H-I-N-E- -V-I-R-T-U-E-L-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ma.ʃin viʁ.tɥɛl\.
What does "machine virtuelle" mean?
As a noun, "machine virtuelle" means: 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...
How do you pronounce "machine virtuelle"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "machine virtuelle" is \ma.ʃin viʁ.tɥɛl\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "machine virtuelle" come from?
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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.
  • Say it as \ma.ʃin viʁ.tɥɛl\ (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.