Metatron
/ˈmɛtətɹɑn/
"metatron" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Metatron” is uncommon English (frequency #68,439 among 36,575 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,439
- frequency rank, English
- 36,575
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - An archangel and the chancellor of Heaven and the scribe of the book of life, in Christian and Jewish folklore. According to medieval apocrypha, he is Enoch, ancestor of Noah, transformed into an a...
Corpus desk
Index EN-metatron · Metatron · English
Metatron · rank #68,439 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,439
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 36,575
- PHOTO-FINISH Messner
Nearest frequency peer: Messner (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Metatron”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Mende
Mende
31,565 corpus weight
- Messner
Messner
31,563 corpus weight
- Metatron
Metatron
31,562 corpus weight
- metra
metra
31,561 corpus weight
- metropole
metropole
31,560 corpus weight
- micromanage
micromanage
31,559 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Metatron” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Metatron |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈmɛtətɹɑn/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #68,439 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Metatron” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Metatron is uncommon English at frequency #68,439 among 36,575 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˈmɛtətɹɑn/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An archangel and the chancellor of Heaven and the scribe of the book of life, in Christian and Jewish folklore. According to medieval apocrypha, he is Enoch, ancestor of Noah, transformed into an a...".
Metatron doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Hebrew מְטַטְרוֹן (Məṭaṭrôn), whose origin is obscure. Possibly from Hebrew מטרא (mattara) 'keeper of the watch.' The Greek/Latin form superficially appears to be a Greek compound meta-τρον (-tron), but that would not seem to make much sense semantical… The correct English form is Metatron, spelled M-E-T-A-T-R-O-N.
Definition
- 1An archangel and the chancellor of Heaven and the scribe of the book of life, in Christian and Jewish folklore. According to medieval apocrypha, he is Enoch, ancestor of Noah, transformed into an angel.
Etymology
From Hebrew מְטַטְרוֹן (Məṭaṭrôn), whose origin is obscure. Possibly from Hebrew מטרא (mattara) 'keeper of the watch.' The Greek/Latin form superficially appears to be a Greek compound meta-τρον (-tron), but that would not seem to make much sense semantically, meaning something like "among-tool." It has also been proposed that the Hebrew word actually does in turn originate from Greek, coming from μετά + θρόνος, with the "th" being transformed into a "t" as the word was repeatedly taken up by one language from another. A review by Hekhalot lists these two possibilities plus seven more.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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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.