métastable
French, adjective/me.tas.tabl/
métastable is spelled M-É-T-A-S-T-A-B-L-E (10 letters) and appears about once in every 21 million words in written French, the 147,615th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Métastable is a French adjective meaning “metastable” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Instable mais durable, se dit d’un état de la matière qu’un facteur déclenchant peut troubler”.
What does métastable mean in English?
adjective
- 1
metastable
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Instable mais durable, se dit d’un état de la matière qu’un facteur déclenchant peut troubler.
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 métastable
- métastables plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce métastable?
- /me.tas.tabl/
- \me.ta.stabl\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to métastable
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is métastable in French?
métastable appears about once in every 21 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).