microbiome
\mi.kʁo.bjom\
The verdict
“microbiome” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Aire biotique (de vie) du microbiote, c’est-à-dire de l’ensemble des espèces microbiennes durablement adaptées à la surface et à l’intérieur d’un organisme vivant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-microbiome · microbiome · French
microbiome · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 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 | microbiome |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mi.kʁo.bjom\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
microbiome is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \mi.kʁo.bjom\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for microbiome in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is microbiome, spelled M-I-C-R-O-B-I-O-M-E.
Definition
- 1Aire biotique (de vie) du microbiote, c’est-à-dire de l’ensemble des espèces microbiennes durablement adaptées à la surface et à l’intérieur d’un organisme vivant.
- 2Somme des génomes des micro-organismes vivant dans ou sur un organisme animal ou végétal, exception faite des états pathologiques.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how microbiome appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle pense toutefois que le microbiome (la flore intestinale) pourrait y être pour quelque chose.
Certains scientifiques appellent l’ensemble des génomes de nos petits invités le microbiome qui, combiné à notre génome, constitue le métagénome humain.
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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.