microcosme

\mi.kʁɔ.kɔsm\

/\mi.kʁɔ.kɔsm\/ noun

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The verdict

“microcosme” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #31,135. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#31,135
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords
15
tracked misspellings

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Monde en petit.

Corpus desk

Index FR-microcosme · microcosme · French

microcosme · rank #31,135 · 15 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #31,135
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 15 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH miette

Nearest frequency peer: miette (+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 « microcosme »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « microcosme » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for microcosme
PropertyValue
Headwordmicrocosme
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\mi.kʁɔ.kɔsm\
Letters10
Frequency rank#31,135
Misspellings tracked15
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « microcosme »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.microcosmese place ici:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « miette » (#31,136), « Massy » (#31,132), « mio » (#31,138). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « microcosme » est au #31,135. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 15 spelling variants around microcosme (IPA \mi.kʁɔ.kɔsm\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #31,135 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for microcosme, with forms such as "imcrocosme", "mcirocosme", and "miccrocosme". 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. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is microcosme, spelled M-I-C-R-O-C-O-S-M-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Monde en petit.
  2. 2
    Milieu de petite envergure constituant un monde en soi, distinct du reste du monde.
  3. 3
    Milieu social replié sur lui-même.
  4. 4
    Ascidie à peau violette, comestible, de la Méditerranée.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. La moniale bénédictine Hildegarde von Bingen décrivit une cosmologie des affections des plantes qui attribue essentiellement aux vapeurs toxiques du macrocosme les dégâts observés dans les champs du microcosme.
  2. – L’étendue d’un domaine n’en fait pas la richesse. Celui où Fabre, l’entomologiste, opérait n’était pas considérable. Le mien non plus. Ne disons pas de mal des microcosmes : ils nous épargnent l’ennui des voyages.

Synonyms

microsociétéfigue de mer

Antonyms

macrocosme

This word in other languages

microcosm(English)microcosmos(Español)Mikrokosmos(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • imcrocosme
  • mcirocosme
  • miccrocosme
  • micorcosme
  • micrcoosme
  • microccosme
  • microcomse
  • microcosem
  • microcosmme
  • microcossme
  • microcsome
  • microocsme
  • micrrocosme
  • mircocosme
  • mmicrocosme

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of microcosme - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

imcrocosme2mcirocosme2miccrocosme1micorcosme2micrcoosme2microccosme1microcomse2microcosem2
Edit distance from "microcosme"

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 "microcosme"?
"microcosme" is spelled M-I-C-R-O-C-O-S-M-E. The IPA pronunciation is \mi.kʁɔ.kɔsm\.
What does "microcosme" mean?
As a noun, "microcosme" means: Monde en petit.
What are common misspellings of "microcosme"?
Common misspellings include "imcrocosme", "mcirocosme", "miccrocosme", "micorcosme", "micrcoosme". The correct spelling is "microcosme".
How do you pronounce "microcosme"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "microcosme" is \mi.kʁɔ.kɔsm\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "microcosme" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list