Meter
\ˈmeːtɐ\
The verdict
“Meter” is uncommon French (frequency #68,463 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,463
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mètre, unité de mesure.
Corpus desk
Index FR-meter · Meter · French
Meter · rank #68,463 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,463
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH merlus
Nearest frequency peer: merlus (-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 « Meter »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- menin
menin
31,541 corpus weight
- mentaliste
mentaliste
31,540 corpus weight
- merlus
merlus
31,539 corpus weight
- Meter
Meter
31,538 corpus weight
- MeToo
MeToo
31,537 corpus weight
- Mey
Mey
31,535 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Meter » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Meter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈmeːtɐ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #68,463 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Meter » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Meter is uncommon French at frequency #68,463 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈmeːtɐ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Mètre, unité de mesure.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Meter in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, 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 easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Meter, spelled M-E-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Mètre, unité de mesure.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Meter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die Siegerin des Marathons hat sich total verausgabt. Wenige Meter nach der Ziellinie ist sie zusammengebrochen.
Kalt, nass und zugig ist es auf dem Gerüst am Südturm des Domes St. Peter in Regensburg. Bis in den Spätherbst hinein sind die Steinmetze der Dombauhütte in bis zu 75 Metern Höhe mit Ausbesserungen an der Kathedrale beschäftigt.
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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