métamorphisme
French, noun\me.ta.mɔʁ.fism\
métamorphisme is spelled M-É-T-A-M-O-R-P-H-I-S-M-E (13 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written French, the 77,345th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Métamorphisme is a French masculine noun meaning “metamorphism” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Ensemble des transformations minéralogiques et structurales qui affectent une roche soumise à des conditions…”.
What does métamorphisme mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinemetamorphism
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Ensemble des transformations minéralogiques et structurales qui affectent une roche soumise à des conditions de température et de pression différentes de celles de sa formation. 2. Qualité des virus qui changent leur algorithme, sans changer leur sémantique, à chaque cycle de reproduction.
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 métamorphisme
- métamorphismes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce métamorphisme?
- \me.ta.mɔʁ.fism\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is métamorphisme in French?
métamorphisme appears about once in every 5 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).