microplaquette
\mi.kʁo.pla.kɛt\
The verdict
“microplaquette” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Puce.
Corpus desk
Index FR-microplaquette · microplaquette · French
microplaquette · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 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 | microplaquette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mi.kʁo.pla.kɛt\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « microplaquette » en français
Rare enough to double-check
microplaquette is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \mi.kʁo.pla.kɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Puce.".
No misspelling variants are generated for microplaquette in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is microplaquette, spelled M-I-C-R-O-P-L-A-Q-U-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Puce.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how microplaquette appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En 1958, un constructeur pouvait glisser dix composants électroniques dans une seule microplaquette de silicone.
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.