death metal
\dɛs me.tal\
The verdict
“death metal” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Sous-genre de heavy metal, issu du thrash metal, qui se distingue par un chant hurlé utilisant essentiellement le grunt, une rythmique très rapide et des thèmes de chanson centrés sur la violence.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | death metal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dɛs me.tal\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “death metal” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for death metal is 11 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dɛs me.tal\. 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: "Sous-genre de heavy metal, issu du thrash metal, qui se distingue par un chant hurlé utilisant essentiellement le grunt, une rythmique très rapide et des thèmes de chanson centrés sur la violence.".
No misspelling variants are generated for death metal 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 death metal, spelled D-E-A-T-H- -M-E-T-A-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Sous-genre de heavy metal, issu du thrash metal, qui se distingue par un chant hurlé utilisant essentiellement le grunt, une rythmique très rapide et des thèmes de chanson centrés sur la violence.
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 “death metal”
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- The one correct French spelling is D-E-A-T-H- -M-E-T-A-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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