valeur inverse
The verdict
“valeur inverse” 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
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Terme utilisé par précision pour désigner l’inverse, que ce soit d’un nombre réel ou d’un autre élément tel qu’une matrice carrée (4ᵉ exemple). La fonction donnant cette valeur inverse est appelée ...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | valeur inverse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \va.lœʁ ɛ̃.vɛʁs\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “valeur inverse” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for valeur inverse is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \va.lœʁ ɛ̃.vɛʁs\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for valeur inverse 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 valeur inverse, spelled V-A-L-E-U-R- -I-N-V-E-R-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Terme utilisé par précision pour désigner l’inverse, que ce soit d’un nombre réel ou d’un autre élément tel qu’une matrice carrée (4ᵉ exemple). La fonction donnant cette valeur inverse est appelée la fonction inverse.
- 2En traçant la cadence de désintégration en tant que fonction de la valeur inverse du carré de la largeur de la région masse (selon le modèle théorique utilisé), il apparaît que l’on peut obtenir la longévité du porteur minoritaire ainsi que la constante de diffusion du matériau N. Une comparaison avec d’autres méthodes confirme l’utilité de cette méthode. — (J.L. Lindström, Flash X-ray irradiation of P-N junctions: A method to measure minority carrier lifetimes, diffusion constants and generation constants (résumé en français), Solid-State Electronics, vol. 14, N°9, pp. 827-833 → lire en ligne)
- 3Terme parfois utilisé pour la négation : transformation de vrai en faux et vice versa.
- 4Sens opposé, valeur opposée, contradictoire d’un terme ou de tout signifiant.
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- The one correct French spelling is V-A-L-E-U-R- -I-N-V-E-R-S-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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