métastase

\me.ta.stɑːz\

/\me.ta.stɑːz\/ noun

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The verdict

“métastase” is uncommon French (frequency #66,146 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#66,146
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Croissance d’un organisme pathogène ou d’une cellule tumorale à distance du site initialement atteint.

Corpus desk

Index FR-metastase · métastase · French

métastase · rank #66,146 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #66,146
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH Mérida

Nearest frequency peer: Mérida (-1 rank slots)

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Rangs de longue queue près de « métastase »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « métastase » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
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)

Longue queue: rang de « métastase » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).métastasetombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « Mérida » (#66,145), « ménestrel » (#66,144), « mémorise » (#66,143). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « métastase » est au #66,146. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

métastase is uncommon French at frequency #66,146 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \me.ta.stɑːz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

No misspelling variants are generated for métastase in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is métastase, spelled M-É-T-A-S-T-A-S-E.

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.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how métastase appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. L’urographie intraveineuse montrait, de son côté, une dilatation de l’uretère, le non-fonctionnement du rein droit cependant que la radiographie du thorax révélait des métastases circutuelles…
  2. L’opération s’était bien passée, bien qu’il ait fallu lui enlever deux côtes, sur lesquelles des métastases s’étaient développées.

This word in other languages

metastasis(English)metástasis(Español)Metastase(Deutsch)metástase(Português)

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

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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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "métastase", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

ménestrel#66,144médicinal#66,142mousquets#66,131occipital#66,168

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list