150 mètres

/\sɑ̃.sɛ̃.kɑ̃t mɛtʁ\/ noun

Letters

10 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

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similar word pairs

150 mètres is aFrenchnoun. It means: Épreuve d’athlétisme qui consiste à faire un sprint le plus rapidement possible sur une distance de 150 mètres sans obstacles, en ligne droite ou en courbe (cette course sert surtout à l’entraîneme... Pronounced \sɑ̃.sɛ̃.kɑ̃t mɛtʁ\.

Key facts for 150 mètres
PropertyValue
Headword150 mètres
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sɑ̃.sɛ̃.kɑ̃t mɛtʁ\
Letters10
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

150 mètres is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for 150 mètres is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɑ̃.sɛ̃.kɑ̃t mɛtʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Épreuve d’athlétisme qui consiste à faire un sprint le plus rapidement possible sur une distance de 150 mètres sans obstacles, en ligne droite ou en courbe (cette course sert surtout à l’entraîneme...".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for 150 mètres in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is 150 mètres, spelled 1-5-0- -M-È-T-R-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Épreuve d’athlétisme qui consiste à faire un sprint le plus rapidement possible sur une distance de 150 mètres sans obstacles, en ligne droite ou en courbe (cette course sert surtout à l’entraînement et n'existe pas dans les compétitions officielles).

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "150 mètres"?
"150 mètres" is spelled 1-5-0- -M-È-T-R-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \sɑ̃.sɛ̃.kɑ̃t mɛtʁ\.
What does "150 mètres" mean?
As a noun, "150 mètres" means: Épreuve d’athlétisme qui consiste à faire un sprint le plus rapidement possible sur une distance de 150 mètres sans obstacles, en ligne droite ou en courbe (cette course sert surtout à l’entraîneme...
How do you pronounce "150 mètres"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "150 mètres" is \sɑ̃.sɛ̃.kɑ̃t mɛtʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "150 mètres" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.