microstructure
\mi.kʁɔ.stʁyk.tyʁ\
The verdict
“microstructure” 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) - Organisation, présentation, structure des informations d’un article au sein d’un recueil, d’un corpus.
Corpus desk
Index FR-microstructure · microstructure · French
microstructure · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-5 5 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 | microstructure |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mi.kʁɔ.stʁyk.tyʁ\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « microstructure » en français
Rare enough to double-check
microstructure is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \mi.kʁɔ.stʁyk.tyʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for microstructure, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is microstructure, spelled M-I-C-R-O-S-T-R-U-C-T-U-R-E.
Definition
- 1Organisation, présentation, structure des informations d’un article au sein d’un recueil, d’un corpus.
- 2Conformation microscopique de la matière.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how microstructure appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans les dictionnaires français, la microstructure se décompose, le plus souvent, de manière suivante : mot vedette, type de mot, genre, définition, exemple.
La verticalité de la nomenclature se doit d’être rigoureuse, quant à la microstructure, elle est souvent marque emblématique du goût pour le fragment, lieu où glisser des données narratives, des anecdotes, divers commentaires, structure où bien des libertés peuvent être prises.
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.