métaphase
French, noun\me.ta.faz\
métaphase is spelled M-É-T-A-P-H-A-S-E (9 letters) and appears about once in every 29 million words in written French, the 172,049th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Métaphase is a French feminine noun meaning “metaphase” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Deuxième phase de la division cellulaire eucaryote par mitose au cours de laquelle les chromosomes s’alignent…”.
What does métaphase mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininemetaphase
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Deuxième phase de la division cellulaire eucaryote par mitose au cours de laquelle les chromosomes s’alignent au centre de la cellule.
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 métaphase
- métaphases plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce métaphase?
- \me.ta.faz\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to métaphase
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is métaphase in French?
métaphase appears about once in every 29 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).