microscopes
\mi.kʁɔs.kɔp\
The verdict
“microscopes” is uncommon French (frequency #66,110 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,110
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de microscope.
Corpus desk
Index FR-microscopes · microscopes · French
microscopes · rank #66,110 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,110
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Michelangelo
Nearest frequency peer: Michelangelo (-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 « microscopes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Metzger
Metzger
33,893 corpus weight
- Michelangelo
Michelangelo
33,892 corpus weight
- microscopes
microscopes
33,891 corpus weight
- mii
mii
33,890 corpus weight
- Milford
Milford
33,889 corpus weight
- millerand
millerand
33,888 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « microscopes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | microscopes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mi.kʁɔs.kɔp\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #66,110 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « microscopes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
microscopes is uncommon French at frequency #66,110 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mi.kʁɔs.kɔp\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de microscope.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for microscopes in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is microscopes, spelled M-I-C-R-O-S-C-O-P-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de microscope.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how microscopes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Car en voulant augmenter le pouvoir grossissant de leurs microscopes, ils vont découvrir l’aberration chromatique.
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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