métro
"metro" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“métro” is uncommon English (frequency #91,833 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,833
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative form of metro, used for a system in a French-speaking city.
Corpus desk
Index EN-metro · métro · English
métro · rank #91,833 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,833
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH multithreading
Nearest frequency peer: multithreading (-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 “métro”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- mucin
mucin
8,173 corpus weight
- Mulhouse
Mulhouse
8,172 corpus weight
- Mullaney
Mullaney
8,171 corpus weight
- multiscale
multiscale
8,170 corpus weight
- multithread…
multithreading
8,169 corpus weight
- métro
métro
8,168 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “métro” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | métro |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #91,833 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “métro” in English
Rare enough to double-check
métro is uncommon English at frequency #91,833 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alternative form of metro, used for a system in a French-speaking city.".
No misspelling variants are generated for métro in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is métro, spelled M-É-T-R-O.
Definition
- 1Alternative form of metro, used for a system in a French-speaking city.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how métro appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
“Where are we going, Jean-Michel?” He answered jokingly, “To the métro. It’s often much better to take the métro than it is to drive, but we need to hurry. After 7:00 p.m. there are fewer métros that come through the Pont Marie station.”
On a crisp fall day, traveling by your lonesome during rush hour, the métro is surely your best option. Inflexibly refusing to take the métro because of social cachet or personal inconvenience is just bad policy, when you will have to spend ten times as much at triple the time to get to a specific destination in a taxi.
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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