milligramme

\mi.li.ɡʁam\

/\mi.li.ɡʁam\/ noun

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

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « milligramme » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for milligramme
PropertyValue
Headwordmilligramme
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\mi.li.ɡʁam\
Letters11
Frequency rank#78,638
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « milligramme » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.milligrammetombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « Mikaela » (#78,637), « Minnelli » (#78,639), « minorer » (#78,640). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « milligramme » est au #78,638. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Unité 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 examples

These source excerpts show how milligramme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Il y a mille milligrammes dans un gramme.
  2. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "milligramme"?
"milligramme" is spelled M-I-L-L-I-G-R-A-M-M-E. The IPA pronunciation is \mi.li.ɡʁam\.
What does "milligramme" mean?
As a noun, "milligramme" means: Unité de mesure de masse du Système international (SI), valant 10⁻³ gramme ou 10⁻⁶ kilogramme, et dont le symbole est mg.
How do you pronounce "milligramme"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "milligramme" is \mi.li.ɡʁam\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "milligramme" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "milligramme", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list