métallique
French, adjective/me.ta.lik/
métallique is a French adjective meaning “metallic” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui est de métal, qui concerne le métal”.
What does métallique mean in English?
adjective
- 1
metallic
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui est de métal, qui concerne le métal. 2. Qualifie le son que rend un métal ; et, par comparaison, le son pareil à celui d’un métal. 3. Qualifie la réserve de métaux précieux monnayés ou non monnayés conservés comme garantie de billets émis. 4. Qui a l’apparence d’un métal.
noun: 1. Billon de métal ordinaire.
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 métallique
- métalliques plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce métallique?
- /me.ta.lik/
- \me.ta.lik\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to métallique
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is métallique in French?
métallique appears 8.5 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).