milliseconde
French, noun/mi.li.sə.ɡɔ̃d/
milliseconde is spelled M-I-L-L-I-S-E-C-O-N-D-E (12 letters) and appears about once in every 9 million words in written French, the 96,749th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Milliseconde is a French feminine noun meaning “millisecond (one one-thousandth of a second)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Unité de mesure de temps du Système international (SI), valant 10⁻³ seconde, et dont le symbole est ms”.
What does milliseconde mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininemillisecond (one one-thousandth of a second)
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 temps du Système international (SI), valant 10⁻³ seconde, et dont le symbole est ms.
adjective: 1. Dont la période ou la précision est de l’ordre de la milliseconde.
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 milliseconde
- millisecondes plural
- milli-seconde dated rare
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce milliseconde?
- /mi.li.sə.ɡɔ̃d/
- \mi.li.sə.ɡɔ̃d\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to milliseconde
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is milliseconde in French?
milliseconde appears about once in every 9 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).