métastase

/\me.ta.stɑːz\/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#66,146

in French word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

métastase is aFrenchnoun. It means: Croissance d’un organisme pathogène ou d’une cellule tumorale à distance du site initialement atteint. Pronounced \me.ta.stɑːz\.

Key facts for métastase
PropertyValue
Headwordmétastase
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\me.ta.stɑːz\
Letters9
Frequency rank#66,146
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of métastase in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for métastase is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \me.ta.stɑːz\. Corpus data places it at rank #66,146 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for métastase in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is métastase, spelled M-É-T-A-S-T-A-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Croissance d’un organisme pathogène ou d’une cellule tumorale à distance du site initialement atteint.
  2. 2
    Figure de rhétorique qui consiste dans son discours à rejeter sur d'autre des fautes, des erreurs que l'on a commises et que l'on est forcé d'admettre.

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #66,146 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "métastase"?
"métastase" is spelled M-É-T-A-S-T-A-S-E. The IPA pronunciation is \me.ta.stɑːz\.
What does "métastase" mean?
As a noun, "métastase" means: Croissance d’un organisme pathogène ou d’une cellule tumorale à distance du site initialement atteint.
How do you pronounce "métastase"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "métastase" is \me.ta.stɑːz\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "métastase" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.