microscope
French, noun/mi.kʁɔs.kɔp/
microscope is spelled M-I-C-R-O-S-C-O-P-E (10 letters) and appears 1.9 times per million words in written French, the 20,952nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Microscope is a French masculine noun meaning “microscope” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Instrument d'optique qui a la propriété de faire paraître les petits objets plus gros qu’ils ne paraissent à…”.
What does microscope mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinemicroscope
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Instrument d'optique qui a la propriété de faire paraître les petits objets plus gros qu’ils ne paraissent à l’œil nu, essentiellement composé d’un objectif et d’un oculaire qui sont renfermés dans un tube. 2. Ce qui grossit les choses abstraites, intellectuelles ou morales, comme le microscope grossit les petits objets.
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 microscope
- microscopes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce microscope?
- /mi.kʁɔs.kɔp/
- \mi.kʁɔs.kɔp\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to microscope
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is microscope in French?
microscope appears 1.9 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).