métayage
French, noun\me.tɛ.jaʒ\
métayage is spelled M-É-T-A-Y-A-G-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 12 million words in written French, the 113,280th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Métayage is a French masculine noun meaning “sharecropping, farming to halves” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Mode de fermage, fait avec un métayer, dont la rente est payable en nature par une part sur la récolte…”.
What does métayage mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinesharecropping, farming to halves
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Mode de fermage, fait avec un métayer, dont la rente est payable en nature par une part sur la récolte (d’habitude la moitié).
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 métayage
- métayages plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce métayage?
- \me.tɛ.jaʒ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to métayage
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is métayage in French?
métayage appears about once in every 12 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).