mémoire à court terme

\me.mwaʁ a kuʁ tɛʁm\

/\me.mwaʁ a kuʁ tɛʁm\/ noun

The verdict

“mémoire à court terme” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency French
21
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Type de mémoire qui permet de retenir et de réutiliser une quantité limitée d'informations pendant un temps relativement court, environ une demi-minute.

Key facts for mémoire à court terme
PropertyValue
Headwordmémoire à court terme
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\me.mwaʁ a kuʁ tɛʁm\
Letters21
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “mémoire à court terme” sits in French frequency

mémoire à court terme 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.

Rare enough to double-check

mémoire à court terme is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \me.mwaʁ a kuʁ tɛʁm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Type de mémoire qui permet de retenir et de réutiliser une quantité limitée d'informations pendant un temps relativement court, environ une demi-minute.".

No generated misspelling entries exist for mémoire à court terme in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is mémoire à court terme, spelled M-É-M-O-I-R-E- -À- -C-O-U-R-T- -T-E-R-M-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Type de mémoire qui permet de retenir et de réutiliser une quantité limitée d'informations pendant un temps relativement court, environ une demi-minute.

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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "mémoire à court terme"?
"mémoire à court terme" is spelled M-É-M-O-I-R-E- -À- -C-O-U-R-T- -T-E-R-M-E. The IPA pronunciation is \me.mwaʁ a kuʁ tɛʁm\.
What does "mémoire à court terme" mean?
As a noun, "mémoire à court terme" means: Type de mémoire qui permet de retenir et de réutiliser une quantité limitée d'informations pendant un temps relativement court, environ une demi-minute.
How do you pronounce "mémoire à court terme"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "mémoire à court terme" is \me.mwaʁ a kuʁ tɛʁm\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "mémoire à court terme" come from?
"mémoire à court terme" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Using “mémoire à court terme”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is M-É-M-O-I-R-E- -À- -C-O-U-R-T- -T-E-R-M-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \me.mwaʁ a kuʁ tɛʁm\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
  • Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list