Metis
/meɪˈtiː/
"metis" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Metis” is uncommon English (frequency #64,536 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,536
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - One of three recognized Aboriginal peoples of Canada, descendants of marriages of Cree, Ojibwa, Saulteaux, and Menominee Aboriginal people with French Canadians, Scots and English.
Corpus desk
Index EN-metis · Metis · English
Metis · rank #64,536 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,536
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH mescaline
Nearest frequency peer: mescaline (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “Metis”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- megaton
megaton
35,469 corpus weight
- mell
mell
35,468 corpus weight
- mescaline
mescaline
35,466 corpus weight
- Metis
Metis
35,465 corpus weight
- midazolam
midazolam
35,464 corpus weight
- miming
miming
35,462 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Metis” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Metis |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /meɪˈtiː/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #64,536 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Metis” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Metis is uncommon English at frequency #64,536 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /meɪˈtiː/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "One of three recognized Aboriginal peoples of Canada, descendants of marriages of Cree, Ojibwa, Saulteaux, and Menominee Aboriginal people with French Canadians, Scots and English.".
Metis has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from French métis, from Old French mestis, from Late Latin mixtīcius. Métis originally referred to Francophone and Cree-speaking descendants of the French-Catholic Red River Métis in Manitoba. Compare metis, mestizo, mustee, and Mestee. The correct English form is Metis, spelled M-E-T-I-S.
Definition
- 1One of three recognized Aboriginal peoples of Canada, descendants of marriages of Cree, Ojibwa, Saulteaux, and Menominee Aboriginal people with French Canadians, Scots and English.
Etymology
Borrowed from French métis, from Old French mestis, from Late Latin mixtīcius. Métis originally referred to Francophone and Cree-speaking descendants of the French-Catholic Red River Métis in Manitoba. Compare metis, mestizo, mustee, and Mestee.
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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