metropolises
/mɛˈtɹɒ.pɒ.lɪs.ɪz/
"metropolises" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“metropolises” is uncommon English (frequency #83,515 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,515
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of metropolis
Corpus desk
Index EN-metropolises · metropolises · English
metropolises · rank #83,515 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,515
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH Mexicano
Nearest frequency peer: Mexicano (+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 “metropolises”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Merriweather
Merriweather
16,492 corpus weight
- Mervin
Mervin
16,491 corpus weight
- Merz
Merz
16,490 corpus weight
- metropolises
metropolises
16,486 corpus weight
- Mexicano
Mexicano
16,485 corpus weight
- Miah
Miah
16,482 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “metropolises” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | metropolises |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /mɛˈtɹɒ.pɒ.lɪs.ɪz/ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #83,515 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “metropolises” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
metropolises is uncommon English at frequency #83,515 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /mɛˈtɹɒ.pɒ.lɪs.ɪz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of metropolis".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for metropolises, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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. The correct English form is metropolises, spelled M-E-T-R-O-P-O-L-I-S-E-S.
Definition
- 1plural of metropolis
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how metropolises appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The development of cities and metropolises has made it necessary to review this scheme.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 3, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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