métairie

\me.tɛ.ʁi\

/\me.tɛ.ʁi\/ noun

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The verdict

“métairie” is uncommon French (frequency #51,620 among 202,672 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#51,620
frequency rank, French
202,672
“M” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Bien-fonds exploité par un colon qui donne pour fermage la moitié des récoltes, ou telle autre portion qui est réglée entre les contractants.

Corpus desk

Index FR-metairie · métairie · French

métairie · rank #51,620 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #51,620
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 202,672
  • PHOTO-FINISH mégère

Nearest frequency peer: mégère (-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.

Frequency neighbourhood for “métairie”

Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)

corpus weight

What this shows Bars show where “métairie” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of May 6, 2026
Key facts for métairie
PropertyValue
Headwordmétairie
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\me.tɛ.ʁi\
Letters8
Frequency rank#51,620
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “métairie” sits in French frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). métairie lands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

métairie is uncommon French at frequency #51,620 among 202,672 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \me.tɛ.ʁi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for métairie, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is métairie, spelled M-É-T-A-I-R-I-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Bien-fonds exploité par un colon qui donne pour fermage la moitié des récoltes, ou telle autre portion qui est réglée entre les contractants.
  2. 2
    Petite ferme, c’est-à-dire à un domaine de moyenne étendue, dont le fermier paie une redevance annuelle déterminée, en argent ou en récoltes.
  3. 3
    Exploitation agricole importante.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how métairie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. La plus grande métairie en superficie était Mauvy : 140 hectares environ, mais la surface labourable ne représentait que 18 % des terres (25 hectares), car l’essentiel était constitué de bruyères (72 hectares), de pâtures (24 hectares) et de taillis (14,3 hectares).
  2. Et grand-père se mit à raconter d’une gaieté un peu fausse comment il avait été placé au lendemain de ses dix ans dans une métairie d’un hameau voisin de la Sabotterie ; « l’Ânerie ».

Synonyms

closerieferme

This word in other languages

Meierei(Deutsch)

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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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "métairie"?
"métairie" is spelled M-É-T-A-I-R-I-E. The IPA pronunciation is \me.tɛ.ʁi\.
What does "métairie" mean?
As a noun, "métairie" means: Bien-fonds exploité par un colon qui donne pour fermage la moitié des récoltes, ou telle autre portion qui est réglée entre les contractants.
How do you pronounce "métairie"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "métairie" is \me.tɛ.ʁi\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "métairie" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "métairie", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list