400 mètres

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for 400 mètres is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ka.tʁə.sɑ̃ 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 courir le plus vite possible sur une distance de 400 mètres sans obstacles, soit un tour de piste complet.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for 400 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 400 mètres, spelled 4-0-0- -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.