mémoire morte
\me.mwaʁ mɔʁt\
The verdict
“mémoire morte” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mémoire dont le contenu ne peut être modifié en usage normal.
Corpus desk
Index FR-memoire-morte · mémoire morte · French
mémoire morte · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mémoire morte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \me.mwaʁ mɔʁt\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mémoire morte » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mémoire morte is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \me.mwaʁ mɔʁt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Mémoire dont le contenu ne peut être modifié en usage normal.".
mémoire morte has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is mémoire morte, spelled M-É-M-O-I-R-E- -M-O-R-T-E.
Definition
- 1Mémoire dont le contenu ne peut être modifié en usage normal.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mémoire morte appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il y a deux types de mémoires dans un ordinateur personnel : la mémoire ROM et la mémoire RAM. La mémoire morte ou ROM ( Read Only Memory ) contient une fois pour toute l’information écrite dans le microprocesseur lors de la fabrication de l’ordinateur à l’usine .
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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.