métalangage
French, noun/me.ta.lɑ̃.ɡaʒ/
métalangage is a French masculine noun meaning “metalanguage” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Discours, parole dont le langage est l’objet”.
What does métalangage mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinemetalanguage
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Discours, parole dont le langage est l’objet. 2. Langage de programmation universel utilisé pour décrire les autres langages de programmation.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of métalangage
- métalangages plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce métalangage?
- /me.ta.lɑ̃.ɡaʒ/
- \me.ta.lɑ̃.ɡaʒ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to métalangage
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is métalangage in French?
métalangage appears about once in every 23 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).