microbiens

\mi.kʁɔ.bjɛ̃\

/\mi.kʁɔ.bjɛ̃\/ adj

The verdict

“microbiens” is uncommon French (frequency #90,937 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#90,937
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de microbien.

Corpus desk

Index FR-microbiens · microbiens · French

microbiens · rank #90,937 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #90,937
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH mice

Nearest frequency peer: mice (-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.

Rangs de longue queue près de « microbiens »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « microbiens » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for microbiens
PropertyValue
Headwordmicrobiens
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\mi.kʁɔ.bjɛ̃\
Letters10
Frequency rank#90,937
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « microbiens » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.microbienstombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « mice » (#90,936), « micromètre » (#90,938), « Mexican » (#90,935). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « microbiens » est au #90,937. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

microbiens is uncommon French at frequency #90,937 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \mi.kʁɔ.bjɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de microbien.".

No generated misspelling entries exist for microbiens in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is microbiens, spelled M-I-C-R-O-B-I-E-N-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Masculin pluriel de microbien.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how microbiens appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. À ses narines surgissent ici et là, à quoi qu’il soit occupé, des croches de parfums surannés, l’odeur des pelures de reinettes ou des zestes de peaux d’orange que sa grand-mère laissait brûler sur le dessus de la cuisinière pour chasser les miasmes microbiens et les esprits malins ou pour embaumer la pièce, et celle, puissante, corsée, qui excite et dila…

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "microbiens"?
"microbiens" is spelled M-I-C-R-O-B-I-E-N-S. The IPA pronunciation is \mi.kʁɔ.bjɛ̃\.
What does "microbiens" mean?
As an adjective, "microbiens" means: Masculin pluriel de microbien.
How do you pronounce "microbiens"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "microbiens" is \mi.kʁɔ.bjɛ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "microbiens", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list