micromanagement
\mi.kʁo.ma.naʒ.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“micromanagement” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Style de management où le manager observe ou contrôle étroitement le travail de ses subordonnés ou employés.
Corpus desk
Index FR-micromanagement · micromanagement · French
micromanagement · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-6 6 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 | micromanagement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mi.kʁo.ma.naʒ.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
micromanagement is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \mi.kʁo.ma.naʒ.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for micromanagement in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is micromanagement, spelled M-I-C-R-O-M-A-N-A-G-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Style de management où le manager observe ou contrôle étroitement le travail de ses subordonnés ou employés.
- 2Gestion à petite échelle et à court-terme d’éléments du gameplay.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how micromanagement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le micromanagement est l’opposé du management dans lequel on évalue le résultat global des salariés.
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.