mettre
[mɛtʁ]
The verdict
“mettre” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - antun, anziehen, auflegen, anlegen, legen, setzen, stecken, stellen, einsetzen, inserieren, hineintun, hineinlegen, hineinstecken
Corpus desk
Index DE-mettre · mettre · German
mettre · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mettre |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [mɛtʁ] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „mettre“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
mettre is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed [mɛtʁ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "antun, anziehen, auflegen, anlegen, legen, setzen, stecken, stellen, einsetzen, inserieren, hineintun, hineinlegen, hineinstecken".
No generated misspelling entries exist for mettre in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is mettre, spelled M-E-T-T-R-E.
Definition
- 1antun, anziehen, auflegen, anlegen, legen, setzen, stecken, stellen, einsetzen, inserieren, hineintun, hineinlegen, hineinstecken
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.