microcosme
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#31,135
in French word usage
Misspellings
15
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
microcosme is aFrenchnoun. It means: Monde en petit. Pronounced \mi.kʁɔ.kɔsm\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | microcosme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mi.kʁɔ.kɔsm\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #31,135 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for microcosme is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mi.kʁɔ.kɔsm\. Corpus data places it at rank #31,135 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 15 documented wrong-spelling variants for microcosme, with forms such as "imcrocosme", "mcirocosme", and "miccrocosme". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is microcosme, spelled M-I-C-R-O-C-O-S-M-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Monde en petit.
- 2Milieu de petite envergure constituant un monde en soi, distinct du reste du monde.
- 3Milieu social replié sur lui-même.
- 4Ascidie à peau violette, comestible, de la Méditerranée.
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Also misspelled as: imcrocosme,mcirocosme,miccrocosme,micorcosme,micrcoosme,microccosme,microcomse,microcosem,microcosmme,microcossme,microcsome,microocsme,micrrocosme,mircocosme,mmicrocosme
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Misspelling Variants of "microcosme"
Frequency rank: #31,135 in French
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