micromètres
\mi.kʁɔ.mɛtʁ\
The verdict
“micromètres” is uncommon French (frequency #80,419 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,419
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de micromètre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-micrometres · micromètres · French
micromètres · rank #80,419 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,419
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH microbiennes
Nearest frequency peer: microbiennes (-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 « micromètres »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- metals
metals
19,584 corpus weight
- microbiennes
microbiennes
19,583 corpus weight
- micromètres
micromètres
19,582 corpus weight
- millilitres
millilitres
19,580 corpus weight
- milt
milt
19,579 corpus weight
- minimalement
minimalement
19,577 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « micromètres » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | micromètres |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mi.kʁɔ.mɛtʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #80,419 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « micromètres » en français
Rare enough to double-check
micromètres is uncommon French at frequency #80,419 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mi.kʁɔ.mɛtʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de micromètre.".
Zero misspellings are on record for micromètres in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 micromètres, spelled M-I-C-R-O-M-È-T-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de micromètre.
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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