microcrédit
\mi.kʁɔ.kʁe.di\
The verdict
“microcrédit” is uncommon French (frequency #68,468 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,468
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Attribution de prêts de faible montant à des entrepreneurs ou à des artisans qui ne peuvent accéder aux prêts bancaires.
Corpus desk
Index FR-microcredit · microcrédit · French
microcrédit · rank #68,468 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,468
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Micah
Nearest frequency peer: Micah (-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 « microcrédit »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Mey
Mey
31,535 corpus weight
- Micah
Micah
31,534 corpus weight
- microcrédit
microcrédit
31,533 corpus weight
- mif
mif
31,532 corpus weight
- ministry
ministry
31,531 corpus weight
- Mirecourt
Mirecourt
31,530 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « microcrédit » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | microcrédit |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mi.kʁɔ.kʁe.di\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #68,468 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « microcrédit » en français
Rare enough to double-check
microcrédit is uncommon French at frequency #68,468 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mi.kʁɔ.kʁe.di\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Attribution de prêts de faible montant à des entrepreneurs ou à des artisans qui ne peuvent accéder aux prêts bancaires.".
microcrédit doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is microcrédit, spelled M-I-C-R-O-C-R-É-D-I-T.
Definition
- 1Attribution de prêts de faible montant à des entrepreneurs ou à des artisans qui ne peuvent accéder aux prêts bancaires.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how microcrédit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le microcrédit est aussi une traite sur l’avenir et pour cette raison il devient très difficilement praticable dans une situation d’inflation galopante.
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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