femme de métier
\fam də me.tje\
The verdict
“femme de métier” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Spécialiste, professionnelle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-femme-de-metier · femme de métier · French
femme de métier · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "F" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | femme de métier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fam də me.tje\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
femme de métier is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \fam də me.tje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Spécialiste, professionnelle.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for femme de métier in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is femme de métier, spelled F-E-M-M-E- -D-E- -M-É-T-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Spécialiste, professionnelle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how femme de métier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le renouveau horloger condamne les « petites mains » pour faire naître la femme de métier
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.