millimètre
French, noun
millimètre is spelled M-I-L-L-I-M-È-T-R-E (10 letters) and appears 1.3 times per million words in written French, the 26,299th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Millimètre is a French masculine noun meaning “millimetre (UK) / millimeter (US)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, millimétré is a different word: “graduated in millimetres”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Unité de mesure de longueur du Système international (SI), valant 10⁻³ mètre, et dont le symbole est mm”.
What does millimètre mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinemillimetre (UK) / millimeter (US)
adjective
- 1
graduated in millimetres
- 2
very precise
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Unité de mesure de longueur du Système international (SI), valant 10⁻³ mètre, et dont le symbole est mm.
adjective: 1. D’une précision égale au millième de mètre. 2. D’une grande précision. 3. Gradué en millimètres.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of millimètre
- millimètres plural
- millimétrée feminine
- millimétrés masculine plural
- millimétrées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to millimètre
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is millimètre in French?
millimètre appears 1.3 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).