microfilms
\mi.kʁɔ.film\
The verdict
“microfilms” is uncommon French (frequency #83,164 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,164
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de microfilm.
Corpus desk
Index FR-microfilms · microfilms · French
microfilms · rank #83,164 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,164
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mielleuse
Nearest frequency peer: mielleuse (+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 « microfilms »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- meures
meures
16,840 corpus weight
- Mickiewicz
Mickiewicz
16,839 corpus weight
- microfilms
microfilms
16,837 corpus weight
- mielleuse
mielleuse
16,836 corpus weight
- mitigation
mitigation
16,833 corpus weight
- mitra
mitra
16,832 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « microfilms » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | microfilms |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mi.kʁɔ.film\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #83,164 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « microfilms » en français
Rare enough to double-check
microfilms is uncommon French at frequency #83,164 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mi.kʁɔ.film\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de microfilm.".
microfilms doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is microfilms, spelled M-I-C-R-O-F-I-L-M-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de microfilm.
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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