microfilm
\mi.kʁo.film\
The verdict
“microfilm” is uncommon French (frequency #65,316 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,316
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Support de stockage analogique reproduisant les pages de livres ou périodiques, des documents juridiques et des dessins techniques.
Corpus desk
Index FR-microfilm · microfilm · French
microfilm · rank #65,316 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,316
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mesurera
Nearest frequency peer: mesurera (-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 « microfilm »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mentirais
mentirais
34,689 corpus weight
- mentons
mentons
34,688 corpus weight
- Merckx
Merckx
34,687 corpus weight
- mesurera
mesurera
34,686 corpus weight
- microfilm
microfilm
34,685 corpus weight
- microphones
microphones
34,684 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « microfilm » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | microfilm |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mi.kʁo.film\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #65,316 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « microfilm » en français
Rare enough to double-check
microfilm is uncommon French at frequency #65,316 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mi.kʁo.film\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Support de stockage analogique reproduisant les pages de livres ou périodiques, des documents juridiques et des dessins techniques.".
microfilm doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is microfilm, spelled M-I-C-R-O-F-I-L-M.
Definition
- 1Support de stockage analogique reproduisant les pages de livres ou périodiques, des documents juridiques et des dessins techniques.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how microfilm appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il était question de microfilm caché dans une montre.
Depuis sept ans, la Chine est coupée du monde extérieur, et c'est seulement maintenant que nous parviennent quelques microfilms. On dit que la Septième Symphonie de Chostakovitch a été envoyée en Amérique sur microfilms, mais personne ne nous a encore transmis, par microfilms, des renseignements sur la pénicilline.
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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