meteor
\ˈmiː.tɪəʳ\
The verdict
“meteor” is uncommon French (frequency #61,697 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,697
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Météore, bolide.
Corpus desk
Index FR-meteor · meteor · French
meteor · rank #61,697 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,697
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mesquins
Nearest frequency peer: mesquins (-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 « meteor »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Merad
Merad
38,308 corpus weight
- mercado
mercado
38,307 corpus weight
- mesquins
mesquins
38,305 corpus weight
- meteor
meteor
38,304 corpus weight
- miraculé
miraculé
38,302 corpus weight
- Miramar
Miramar
38,301 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « meteor » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | meteor |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈmiː.tɪəʳ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #61,697 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « meteor » en français
Rare enough to double-check
meteor is uncommon French at frequency #61,697 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈmiː.tɪəʳ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Météore, bolide.".
Zero misspellings are on record for meteor in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is meteor, spelled M-E-T-E-O-R.
Definition
- 1Météore, bolide.
Synonyms
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).