mégapole
\me.ɡa.pɔl\
The verdict
“mégapole” is uncommon French (frequency #76,817 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,817
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Très grande agglomération, comportant plusieurs millions d’habitants.
Corpus desk
Index FR-megapole · mégapole · French
mégapole · rank #76,817 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,817
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mutualisés
Nearest frequency peer: mutualisés (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « mégapole »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- multilingui…
multilinguisme
23,188 corpus weight
- multivers
multivers
23,187 corpus weight
- muselé
muselé
23,186 corpus weight
- mutualisés
mutualisés
23,185 corpus weight
- mégapole
mégapole
23,184 corpus weight
- nadar
nadar
23,182 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mégapole » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mégapole |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \me.ɡa.pɔl\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #76,817 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mégapole » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mégapole is uncommon French at frequency #76,817 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \me.ɡa.pɔl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Très grande agglomération, comportant plusieurs millions d’habitants.".
mégapole doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is mégapole, spelled M-É-G-A-P-O-L-E.
Definition
- 1Très grande agglomération, comportant plusieurs millions d’habitants.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mégapole appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce patchwork est encore plus manifeste dans les mégapoles, l’archétype étant New York avec ses communautés irlandaise, italienne, chinoise…, leurs quartiers et leurs festivités.
Aujourd’hui, plus de la moitié de la population mondiale vit dans des mégapoles.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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