mémoire
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,093
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
mémoire is aFrenchnoun. It means: Capacité à retenir, conserver et rappeler de nombreuses informations antérieures. Pronounced \me.mwaʁ\. It ranks #1,093 in French word frequency. Often confused with moire and memory.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mémoire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \me.mwaʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #1,093 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for mémoire is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \me.mwaʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,093 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for mémoire, with forms such as "memoire", "mmémoire", and "mméoire". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "moire", "memory", "messire", 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 mémoire, spelled M-É-M-O-I-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Capacité à retenir, conserver et rappeler de nombreuses informations antérieures.
- 2Action de se souvenir.
- 3Réputation, souvenir que laisse une personne après sa mort.
- 4Dimension d'une société qui concerne la préservation du souvenir de ce qui l'a précédée.
- 5Commémoration.
- 6Dispositif comportant au moins deux états et qui, à la suite de l'action le faisant changer d’état, conserve ce nouvel état pendant une durée généralement indéterminée.
- 7Dispositif qui permet d’enregistrer, de conserver et de restituer des données.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: memoire,mmémoire,mméoire,mémiore,mémmoire,mémoier,mémoirre,mémorie,méomire,émmoire
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for mémoire
Misspelling Variants of "mémoire"
Frequency rank: #1,093 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter M in our French index: