métaphoriquement
French, adverb/me.ta.fɔ.ʁik.mɑ̃/
métaphoriquement is spelled M-É-T-A-P-H-O-R-I-Q-U-E-M-E-N-T (16 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written French, the 55,146th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Métaphoriquement is a French adverb meaning “metaphorically” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “D’une manière métaphorique”.
What does métaphoriquement mean in English?
adverb
- 1
metaphorically
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adverb: 1. D’une manière métaphorique.
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.
How do you pronounce métaphoriquement?
- /me.ta.fɔ.ʁik.mɑ̃/
- \me.ta.fɔ.ʁik.mɑ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to métaphoriquement
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is métaphoriquement in French?
métaphoriquement appears about once in every 3 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).