Microsoft
\ˈmaɪkɹəˌsɔft\
The verdict
“Microsoft” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #4,874 in French word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #4,874
- frequency rank, French
- 9
- letters
- 14
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Entreprise informatique américaine, qui édite en particulier le système d'exploitation Microsoft Windows et la suite logicielle Microsoft Office.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Microsoft |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ˈmaɪkɹəˌsɔft\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #4,874 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Microsoft” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Microsoft is 9 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ˈmaɪkɹəˌsɔft\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,874 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Entreprise informatique américaine, qui édite en particulier le système d'exploitation Microsoft Windows et la suite logicielle Microsoft Office.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for Microsoft, with forms such as "imcrosoft", "mcirosoft", and "miccrosoft". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is Microsoft, spelled M-I-C-R-O-S-O-F-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Entreprise informatique américaine, qui édite en particulier le système d'exploitation Microsoft Windows et la suite logicielle Microsoft Office.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: imcrosoft,mcirosoft,miccrosoft,micorsoft,microosft,microsfot,microsofft,microsoftt,microsotf,microssoft,micrrosoft,micrsooft,mircosoft,mmicrosoft
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Microsoft - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Using “Microsoft”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is M-I-C-R-O-S-O-F-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ˈmaɪkɹəˌsɔft\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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