méteil
\me.tɛj\
The verdict
“méteil” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Froment et seigle mêlés ensemble.
Corpus desk
Index FR-meteil · méteil · French
méteil · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | méteil |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \me.tɛj\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « méteil » en français
Rare enough to double-check
méteil is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \me.tɛj\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Froment et seigle mêlés ensemble.".
méteil has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is méteil, spelled M-É-T-E-I-L.
Definition
- 1Froment et seigle mêlés ensemble.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how méteil appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le pain de méteil, c'est-à-dire, moitié froment, moitié seigle est moins nourrissant ; cependant les gens de la campagne en usent ordinairement.
L'état des céréales est toujours satisfaisant. Les fortes gelées de la fin décembre ont été favorables aux blés en détruisant les abondantes touffes de moutardon, et aux méteils et seigles en enrayant les dégâts des limaces.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.