unité de mesure
\y.ni.te də mə.zyʁ\
The verdict
“unité de mesure” 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
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Étalon pour la mesure d’une grandeur physique qui a besoin d’une définition précise pour être utile.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | unité de mesure |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \y.ni.te də mə.zyʁ\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “unité de mesure” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for unité de mesure is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \y.ni.te də mə.zyʁ\. 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: "Étalon pour la mesure d’une grandeur physique qui a besoin d’une définition précise pour être utile.".
No misspelling variants are generated for unité de mesure 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 unité de mesure, spelled U-N-I-T-É- -D-E- -M-E-S-U-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Étalon pour la mesure d’une grandeur physique qui a besoin d’une définition précise pour être utile.
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- The one correct French spelling is U-N-I-T-É- -D-E- -M-E-S-U-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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