mémoire à court terme
\me.mwaʁ a kuʁ tɛʁm\
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mémoire à court terme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \me.mwaʁ a kuʁ tɛʁm\ |
| Letters | 21 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mémoire à court terme” sits in French frequency
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
- 1Type 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.
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Using “mémoire à court terme”
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- 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.
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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.