milligramme
\mi.li.ɡʁam\
The verdict
“milligramme” is uncommon French (frequency #78,638 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,638
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Unité de mesure de masse du Système international (SI), valant 10⁻³ gramme ou 10⁻⁶ kilogramme, et dont le symbole est mg.
Corpus desk
Index FR-milligramme · milligramme · French
milligramme · rank #78,638 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,638
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Mikaela
Nearest frequency peer: Mikaela (-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 « milligramme »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mesurage
mesurage
21,367 corpus weight
- Mikaela
Mikaela
21,364 corpus weight
- milligramme
milligramme
21,363 corpus weight
- Minnelli
Minnelli
21,362 corpus weight
- minorer
minorer
21,361 corpus weight
- minoterie
minoterie
21,360 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « milligramme » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | milligramme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mi.li.ɡʁam\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #78,638 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « milligramme » en français
Rare enough to double-check
milligramme is uncommon French at frequency #78,638 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mi.li.ɡʁam\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Unité de mesure de masse du Système international (SI), valant 10⁻³ gramme ou 10⁻⁶ kilogramme, et dont le symbole est mg.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for milligramme 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, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is milligramme, spelled M-I-L-L-I-G-R-A-M-M-E.
Definition
- 1Unité de mesure de masse du Système international (SI), valant 10⁻³ gramme ou 10⁻⁶ kilogramme, et dont le symbole est mg.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how milligramme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il y a mille milligrammes dans un gramme.
Les besoins en fluor sont très faibles : de 0,2 à 1 milligramme pour les enfants en fonction de leur âge, et environ 2 milligrammes pour les adolescents et les adultes.
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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