microgramme
\mi.kʁo.ɡʁam\
The verdict
“microgramme” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Unité de mesure de masse du Système international (SI), valant 10⁻⁶ gramme ou 10⁻⁹ kilogramme, et dont le symbole est μg.
Corpus desk
Index FR-microgramme · microgramme · French
microgramme · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | microgramme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mi.kʁo.ɡʁam\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « microgramme » en français
Rare enough to double-check
microgramme is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \mi.kʁo.ɡʁam\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Unité de mesure de masse du Système international (SI), valant 10⁻⁶ gramme ou 10⁻⁹ kilogramme, et dont le symbole est μg.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for microgramme, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is microgramme, spelled M-I-C-R-O-G-R-A-M-M-E.
Definition
- 1Unité de mesure de masse du Système international (SI), valant 10⁻⁶ gramme ou 10⁻⁹ kilogramme, et dont le symbole est μg.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how microgramme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On entend par là des concentrations dans l’environnement de l’ordre du microgramme ou du nanogramme, par litre ou par kilogramme.
Tout ici, tout ce qui se mange et qui se boit, est drogué : il y a 35 000 microgrammes de LSD dans les bonbonnes de cidre, de la mescaline dans la salade de carotte, du peyote dans le poulet, du LSD encore dans le pain.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.