microphones
\mi.kʁɔ.fɔn\
The verdict
“microphones” is uncommon French (frequency #65,317 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,317
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de microphone.
Corpus desk
Index FR-microphones · microphones · French
microphones · rank #65,317 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,317
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH microfilm
Nearest frequency peer: microfilm (-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 « microphones »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mentons
mentons
34,688 corpus weight
- Merckx
Merckx
34,687 corpus weight
- mesurera
mesurera
34,686 corpus weight
- microfilm
microfilm
34,685 corpus weight
- microphones
microphones
34,684 corpus weight
- minimisent
minimisent
34,681 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « microphones » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | microphones |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mi.kʁɔ.fɔn\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #65,317 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « microphones » en français
Rare enough to double-check
microphones is uncommon French at frequency #65,317 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mi.kʁɔ.fɔn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de microphone.".
microphones has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is microphones, spelled M-I-C-R-O-P-H-O-N-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de microphone.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how microphones appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cette méthode consiste à déflasquer la roue en partie supérieure, puis à fixer des capteurs à membrane affleurante (microphones) au dessus de la roue déflasquée et de la volute pour mesurer les valeurs de pression à l'intérieur de cette pompe.
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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