mémoire

/\me.mwaʁ\/ noun

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.

Key facts for mémoire
PropertyValue
Headwordmémoire
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\me.mwaʁ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#1,093
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of mémoire in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    Capacité à retenir, conserver et rappeler de nombreuses informations antérieures.
  2. 2
    Action de se souvenir.
  3. 3
    Réputation, souvenir que laisse une personne après sa mort.
  4. 4
    Dimension d'une société qui concerne la préservation du souvenir de ce qui l'a précédée.
  5. 5
    Commémoration.
  6. 6
    Dispositif 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.
  7. 7
    Dispositif 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"

memoire7mmémoire8mméoire7mémiore7mémmoire8mémoier7mémoirre8mémorie7
Misspelling Variants of "mémoire"

Frequency rank: #1,093 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "mémoire"?
"mémoire" is spelled M-É-M-O-I-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \me.mwaʁ\.
What does "mémoire" mean?
As a noun, "mémoire" means: Capacité à retenir, conserver et rappeler de nombreuses informations antérieures.
What words are commonly confused with "mémoire"?
"mémoire" is commonly confused with "moire", "memory", "messire". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "mémoire"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "mémoire" is \me.mwaʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "mémoire" come from?
"mémoire" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.