métèques
\me.tɛk\
The verdict
“métèques” is uncommon French (frequency #73,375 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,375
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de métèque.
Corpus desk
Index FR-meteques · métèques · French
métèques · rank #73,375 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,375
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH métastatique
Nearest frequency peer: métastatique (-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 « métèques »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mucho
mucho
26,630 corpus weight
- méditez
méditez
26,629 corpus weight
- ménagent
ménagent
26,628 corpus weight
- métastatique
métastatique
26,627 corpus weight
- métèques
métèques
26,626 corpus weight
- Narbonnais
Narbonnais
26,625 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « métèques » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | métèques |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \me.tɛk\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #73,375 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « métèques » en français
Rare enough to double-check
métèques is uncommon French at frequency #73,375 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \me.tɛk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de métèque.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for métèques in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is métèques, spelled M-É-T-È-Q-U-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de métèque.
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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