Convention du Mètre
\kɔ̃.vɑ̃.sjɔ̃ dy mɛtʁ\
The verdict
“Convention du Mètre” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a proper noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 19
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Convention internationale par laquelle les pays s'engagent à entretenir à frais commun le Bureau international des poids et mesures, chargé de la création et de la conservation des étalons servant ...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Convention du Mètre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.vɑ̃.sjɔ̃ dy mɛtʁ\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Convention du Mètre” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Convention du Mètre is 19 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ̃.vɑ̃.sjɔ̃ dy 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: "Convention internationale par laquelle les pays s'engagent à entretenir à frais commun le Bureau international des poids et mesures, chargé de la création et de la conservation des étalons servant ...".
No misspelling variants are generated for Convention du Mètre in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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 Convention du Mètre, spelled C-O-N-V-E-N-T-I-O-N- -D-U- -M-È-T-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Convention internationale par laquelle les pays s'engagent à entretenir à frais commun le Bureau international des poids et mesures, chargé de la création et de la conservation des étalons servant de référence internationale pour les unités de mesure du système international d'unités (SI). Le but de la Convention est d'assurer l'unification internationale et le perfectionnement du système métrique.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “Convention du Mètre”
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- The one correct French spelling is C-O-N-V-E-N-T-I-O-N- -D-U- -M-È-T-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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