métamorphe
\me.ta.mɔʁf\
The verdict
“métamorphe” is uncommon French (frequency #67,722 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,722
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qualifie un être vivant ayant la capacité de changer de forme (ex : loup-garou, changeling, etc.).
Corpus desk
Index FR-metamorphe · métamorphe · French
métamorphe · rank #67,722 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,722
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH métayers
Nearest frequency peer: métayers (+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 « métamorphe »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- myriades
myriades
32,283 corpus weight
- médiatiser
médiatiser
32,282 corpus weight
- méfiait
méfiait
32,281 corpus weight
- métamorphe
métamorphe
32,279 corpus weight
- métayers
métayers
32,278 corpus weight
- nabuchodono…
nabuchodonosor
32,276 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « métamorphe » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | métamorphe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \me.ta.mɔʁf\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #67,722 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « métamorphe » en français
Rare enough to double-check
métamorphe is uncommon French at frequency #67,722 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \me.ta.mɔʁf\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for métamorphe in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is métamorphe, spelled M-É-T-A-M-O-R-P-H-E.
Definition
- 1Qualifie un être vivant ayant la capacité de changer de forme (ex : loup-garou, changeling, etc.).
- 2Se dit d’un virus qui change son algorithme, sans changer sa sémantique, à chaque cycle de reproduction.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how métamorphe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les virus métamorphes sont similaires aux virus polymorphes […] Alors que les différentes formes mutées d’un virus polymorphe partagent le même noyau (en particulier la fonction de mutation), celles d’un virus métamorphe ont chacune un noyau différent.
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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