système décimal

/\sis.tɛm de.si.mal\/ noun

Letters

15 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

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système décimal is aFrenchnoun. It means: Système de numération utilisant la base dix. Pronounced \sis.tɛm de.si.mal\.

Key facts for système décimal
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Headwordsystème décimal
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sis.tɛm de.si.mal\
Letters15
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

système décimal is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for système décimal is 15 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sis.tɛm de.si.mal\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for système décimal in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.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.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is système décimal, spelled S-Y-S-T-È-M-E- -D-É-C-I-M-A-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Système de numération utilisant la base dix.
  2. 2
    Système de poids et mesures établi par la Convention.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "système décimal"?
"système décimal" is spelled S-Y-S-T-È-M-E- -D-É-C-I-M-A-L. The IPA pronunciation is \sis.tɛm de.si.mal\.
What does "système décimal" mean?
As a noun, "système décimal" means: Système de numération utilisant la base dix.
How do you pronounce "système décimal"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "système décimal" is \sis.tɛm de.si.mal\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "système décimal" come from?
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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.