microclimat
\mi.kʁo.kli.ma\
The verdict
“microclimat” is uncommon French (frequency #75,004 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,004
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Climat limité à un lieu très restreint, significativement distinct du climat général de la région considérée où il est situé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-microclimat · microclimat · French
microclimat · rank #75,004 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,004
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH meunerie
Nearest frequency peer: meunerie (-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 « microclimat »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Mesmin
Mesmin
25,000 corpus weight
- Messina
Messina
24,999 corpus weight
- meunerie
meunerie
24,998 corpus weight
- microclimat
microclimat
24,997 corpus weight
- mijoté
mijoté
24,996 corpus weight
- millards
millards
24,995 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « microclimat » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | microclimat |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mi.kʁo.kli.ma\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #75,004 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « microclimat » en français
Rare enough to double-check
microclimat is uncommon French at frequency #75,004 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mi.kʁo.kli.ma\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Climat limité à un lieu très restreint, significativement distinct du climat général de la région considérée où il est situé.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for microclimat in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is microclimat, spelled M-I-C-R-O-C-L-I-M-A-T.
Definition
- 1Climat limité à un lieu très restreint, significativement distinct du climat général de la région considérée où il est situé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how microclimat appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il suffit d’aller en forêt un jour de grand vent ou de grand soleil pour être convaincu que la forêt modifie le microclimat.
Les villes sont caractérisées par un microclimat spécifique du fait de la nature des surfaces (majoritairement minérale), de leurs formes et des activités. La spécificité du microclimat urbain s’exprime par le phénomène d’îlot de chaleur urbain ou ICU (températures plus élevées en ville que dans les zones rurales voisines).
This word in other languages
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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