métayer
\me.te.je\
The verdict
“métayer” is uncommon French (frequency #53,509 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,509
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui fait valoir une métairie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-metayer · métayer · French
métayer · rank #53,509 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,509
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mésange
Nearest frequency peer: mésange (-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 « métayer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mélomane
mélomane
46,495 corpus weight
- méprenez
méprenez
46,494 corpus weight
- mésange
mésange
46,493 corpus weight
- métayer
métayer
46,492 corpus weight
- nasse
nasse
46,491 corpus weight
- naughty
naughty
46,490 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « métayer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | métayer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \me.te.je\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #53,509 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « métayer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
métayer is uncommon French at frequency #53,509 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \me.te.je\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for métayer 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, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is métayer, spelled M-É-T-A-Y-E-R.
Definition
- 1Celui qui fait valoir une métairie.
- 2Celui qui travaille dans une ferme et qui reçoit une portion de la récolte comme salaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how métayer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les dispositions de l’article L. 411-37 relatives à l’adhésion du preneur à une société à objet principalement agricole sont applicables en cas de métayage. Le bailleur et le métayer conviennent alors avec la société de la manière dont il sera fait application au bien loué des articles L. 417-1 à L. 417-7.
C’est d’un garenne de mes métayers, dit-il avec une fierté gourmande.
This word in other languages
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.
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