membre
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,034
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
15
similar word pairs
membre is aFrenchnoun. It means: Partie extérieure du corps d’un être humain ou d’un animal, distinguée de toutes les autres par quelque fonction particulière. Note d’usage : Se dit principalement des bras et des jambes ; ne se di... Pronounced \mɑ̃bʁ\. It ranks #1,034 in French word frequency. Often confused with Mère and mètre.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | membre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɑ̃bʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,034 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for membre is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɑ̃bʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,034 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 12 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for membre, with forms such as "emmbre", "mebmre", and "membbre". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "Mère", "mètre", "meure", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 membre, spelled M-E-M-B-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Partie extérieure du corps d’un être humain ou d’un animal, distinguée de toutes les autres par quelque fonction particulière. Note d’usage : Se dit principalement des bras et des jambes ; ne se dit jamais de la tête.
- 2Membre viril, pénis.
- 3Élément d’un groupe humain.
- 4Chacune des personnes qui composent un corps constitué dans l’État, une société littéraire ou savante, etc.
- 5Partie distincte d’un tout.
- 6Partie distincte d’un tout.
- 7Partie distincte d’un tout.
- 8Partie distincte d’un tout.
- 9Partie distincte d’un tout.
- 10Partie distincte d’un tout.
- 11Partie distincte d’un tout.
- 12Meuble représentant une patte animale détachée du corps dans les armoiries. À rapprocher de patte.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: emmbre,mebmre,membbre,membrre,memmbre,memrbe,mmebre,mmembre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "membre"
Frequency rank: #1,034 in French
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