micro
\mi.kʁo\
The verdict
“micro” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,683. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #2,683
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Microphone.
Corpus desk
Index FR-micro · micro · French
micro · rank #2,683 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,683
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mener
Nearest frequency peer: mener (-1 rank slots)
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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « micro »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- lourd
lourd
97,320 corpus weight
- mener
mener
97,319 corpus weight
- micro
micro
97,318 corpus weight
- mont
mont
97,317 corpus weight
- morale
morale
97,316 corpus weight
- niveaux
niveaux
97,315 corpus weight
What this shows « micro » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | micro |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mi.kʁo\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #2,683 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « micro »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around micro (IPA \mi.kʁo\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #2,683 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for micro, with forms such as "imcro", "mciro", and "miccro". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mir", "mio", "milo", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is micro, spelled M-I-C-R-O.
Definition
- 1Microphone.
- 2Microphone d’un journaliste qui pose des questions.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how micro appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Entre le bar à tacos « Les Pâques à Juarez » et celui à souchis « Le Mifouné », Choppard se présenta au guichet du kébabiste. Ce guichet n'est pas une image : Nourri en avait réellement installé un à sa devanture, un de récup’, complet avec hygiaphone et micro crachotant […].
La foule, nombreuse, s'agglutinait le long des avenues, voyait passer en fanfare la caravane publicitaire, tentait d'attraper un gadget lancé depuis les chars qui chauffaient les spectateurs par des annonces au micro et des coups de Klaxon.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- imcro
- mciro
- miccro
- micor
- micrro
- mirco
- mmicro
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of micro - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).