manomètre
\ma.nɔ.mɛtʁ\
The verdict
“manomètre” is uncommon French (frequency #72,527 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,527
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Instrument qui sert à mesurer la pression des gaz ou des vapeurs.
Corpus desk
Index FR-manometre · manomètre · French
manomètre · rank #72,527 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,527
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH manquerons
Nearest frequency peer: manquerons (+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 « manomètre »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Manicouagan
Manicouagan
27,477 corpus weight
- manifesto
manifesto
27,476 corpus weight
- manomètre
manomètre
27,474 corpus weight
- manquerons
manquerons
27,473 corpus weight
- maro
maro
27,472 corpus weight
- maron
maron
27,471 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « manomètre » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | manomètre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.nɔ.mɛtʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #72,527 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « manomètre » en français
Rare enough to double-check
manomètre is uncommon French at frequency #72,527 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ma.nɔ.mɛtʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
manomètre has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is manomètre, spelled M-A-N-O-M-È-T-R-E.
Definition
- 1Instrument qui sert à mesurer la pression des gaz ou des vapeurs.
- 2Instrument pour mesurer la pression des fluides.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how manomètre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Seule, une petite lanterne éclairait le niveau d’eau, pour que nulle lumière n’aveuglât le mécanicien ; et, sur le cadran du manomètre, dont l’émail semblait garder une lueur propre, il avait vu que l’aiguille bleue, tremblante, baissait rapidement.
Elle surveillait le courrier des postulants avec le regard fixe du chauffeur de locomotive sur son manomètre.
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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