France métropolitaine
\fʁɑ̃s me.tʁɔ.pɔ.li.tɛn\
The verdict
“France métropolitaine” 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
- 21
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Partie européenne de la République française, incluant sa partie continentale et ses îles proches dans l'océan Atlantique, celles de la Manche et celles de la mer Méditerranée dont la Corse.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | France métropolitaine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \fʁɑ̃s me.tʁɔ.pɔ.li.tɛn\ |
| Letters | 21 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “France métropolitaine” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for France métropolitaine is 21 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fʁɑ̃s me.tʁɔ.pɔ.li.tɛn\. 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: "Partie européenne de la République française, incluant sa partie continentale et ses îles proches dans l'océan Atlantique, celles de la Manche et celles de la mer Méditerranée dont la Corse.".
France métropolitaine has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is France métropolitaine, spelled F-R-A-N-C-E- -M-É-T-R-O-P-O-L-I-T-A-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Partie européenne de la République française, incluant sa partie continentale et ses îles proches dans l'océan Atlantique, celles de la Manche et celles de la mer Méditerranée dont la Corse.
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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 “France métropolitaine”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is F-R-A-N-C-E- -M-É-T-R-O-P-O-L-I-T-A-I-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.