microphone
\mi.kʁɔ.fɔn\
The verdict
“microphone” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,909. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,909
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Instrument qui transforme un son en un signal électrique, lequel peut ensuite être amplifié pour être enregistré, diffusé ou restitué par un haut-parleur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-microphone · microphone · French
microphone · rank #32,909 · 15 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,909
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH meules
Nearest frequency peer: meules (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « microphone »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- maîtrises
maîtrises
67,096 corpus weight
- meules
meules
67,093 corpus weight
- microphone
microphone
67,092 corpus weight
- mignonnes
mignonnes
67,091 corpus weight
- misent
misent
67,090 corpus weight
- Miyazaki
Miyazaki
67,089 corpus weight
What this shows « microphone » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | microphone |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mi.kʁɔ.fɔn\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #32,909 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « microphone »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around microphone (IPA \mi.kʁɔ.fɔn\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #32,909 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Instrument qui transforme un son en un signal électrique, lequel peut ensuite être amplifié pour être enregistré, diffusé ou restitué par un haut-parleur.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for microphone, with forms such as "imcrophone", "mcirophone", and "miccrophone". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is microphone, spelled M-I-C-R-O-P-H-O-N-E.
Definition
- 1Instrument qui transforme un son en un signal électrique, lequel peut ensuite être amplifié pour être enregistré, diffusé ou restitué par un haut-parleur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how microphone appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le microphone du radioconcert diffère donc notablement sur ce point du microphone de la téléphonie ordinaire et l'entrepreneur de radioconcert éprouvera de grosses difficultés d'organisation de son studio s'il n'a pas d'abord traité le problème technique de la recherche d'un microphone spécial.
En parlant à tour de rôle devant le microphone, nous aurions dû dire que notre victoire était celle de la technique aéronautique française et de la météorologie, beaucoup plus que le triomphe de deux hommes.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- imcrophone
- mcirophone
- miccrophone
- micorphone
- microhpone
- microphhone
- microphnoe
- microphoen
- microphonne
- micropohne
- micropphone
- micrpohone
- micrrophone
- mircophone
- mmicrophone
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of microphone - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).