watt par mètre-kelvin
The verdict
“watt par mètre-kelvin” 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
- 21
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Unité de mesure de la conductivité thermique du Système international ; son symbole est W⋅m⁻¹⋅K⁻¹.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | watt par mètre-kelvin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \wat paʁ mɛtʁ lɛl.vɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 21 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “watt par mètre-kelvin” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for watt par mètre-kelvin is 21 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \wat paʁ mɛtʁ lɛl.vɛ̃\. 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 mesure de la conductivité thermique du Système international ; son symbole est W⋅m⁻¹⋅K⁻¹.".
No misspelling variants are generated for watt par mètre-kelvin 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 watt par mètre-kelvin, spelled W-A-T-T- -P-A-R- -M-È-T-R-E---K-E-L-V-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Unité de mesure de la conductivité thermique du Système international ; son symbole est W⋅m⁻¹⋅K⁻¹.
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- The one correct French spelling is W-A-T-T- -P-A-R- -M-È-T-R-E---K-E-L-V-I-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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