micromètre
French, noun/mi.kʁɔ.mɛtʁ/
micromètre is spelled M-I-C-R-O-M-È-T-R-E (10 letters) and appears about once in every 8 million words in written French, the 90,544th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Micromètre is a French masculine noun meaning “micrometre (one-millionth of a metre)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Unité de mesure de longueur du Système international (SI), valant 10⁻⁶ mètre, et dont le symbole est μm”.
What does micromètre mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinemicrometre (one-millionth of a metre)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Unité de mesure de longueur du Système international (SI), valant 10⁻⁶ mètre, et dont le symbole est μm. 2. Appareil qui sert à mesurer avec une très grande précision de petites distances et de petites grandeurs.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of micromètre
- micromètres plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce micromètre?
- /mi.kʁɔ.mɛtʁ/
- \mi.kʁɔ.mɛtʁ\
- \mi.kʁo.mɛtʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to micromètre
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is micromètre in French?
micromètre appears about once in every 8 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).