métalleux
\me.ta.lø\
The verdict
“métalleux” is uncommon French (frequency #94,057 among 202,672 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,057
- frequency rank, French
- 202,672
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Personne participant à la culture heavy metal, par la création ou par l’écoute de musique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-metalleux · métalleux · French
métalleux · rank #94,057 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,057
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 202,672
- PHOTO-FINISH Méricourt
Nearest frequency peer: Méricourt (-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 “métalleux”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- médiévistes
médiévistes
5,947 corpus weight
- ménagez
ménagez
5,946 corpus weight
- Méricourt
Méricourt
5,945 corpus weight
- métalleux
métalleux
5,944 corpus weight
- mûris
mûris
5,943 corpus weight
- napperons
napperons
5,941 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “métalleux” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | métalleux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \me.ta.lø\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #94,057 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “métalleux” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
métalleux is uncommon French at frequency #94,057 among 202,672 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \me.ta.lø\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Personne participant à la culture heavy metal, par la création ou par l’écoute de musique.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for métalleux, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is métalleux, spelled M-É-T-A-L-L-E-U-X.
Definition
- 1Personne participant à la culture heavy metal, par la création ou par l’écoute de musique.
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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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.