nombre de Mach
\nɔ̃.bʁə də mak\
The verdict
“nombre de Mach” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Unité de vitesse égale à une fois la vitesse du son dans l'air, toujours singulier, et qui précède un nombre sans dimension, noté Ma, qui exprime une vitesse sous forme de quotient.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nombre de Mach |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \nɔ̃.bʁə də mak\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “nombre de Mach” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for nombre de Mach is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \nɔ̃.bʁə də mak\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Unité de vitesse égale à une fois la vitesse du son dans l'air, toujours singulier, et qui précède un nombre sans dimension, noté Ma, qui exprime une vitesse sous forme de quotient.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for nombre de Mach, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is nombre de Mach, spelled N-O-M-B-R-E- -D-E- -M-A-C-H.
Definition
- 1Unité de vitesse égale à une fois la vitesse du son dans l'air, toujours singulier, et qui précède un nombre sans dimension, noté Ma, qui exprime une vitesse sous forme de quotient.
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.
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Using “nombre de Mach”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is N-O-M-B-R-E- -D-E- -M-A-C-H - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \nɔ̃.bʁə də mak\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.