méthadone
\me.ta.dɔn\
The verdict
“méthadone” is uncommon French (frequency #56,772 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,772
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Opioïde analgésique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-methadone · méthadone · French
méthadone · rank #56,772 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,772
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH ménisque
Nearest frequency peer: ménisque (-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 « méthadone »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Murano
Murano
43,233 corpus weight
- médisance
médisance
43,232 corpus weight
- Mélanchon
Mélanchon
43,231 corpus weight
- ménisque
ménisque
43,230 corpus weight
- méthadone
méthadone
43,229 corpus weight
- nader
nader
43,227 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « méthadone » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | méthadone |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \me.ta.dɔn\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #56,772 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « méthadone » en français
Rare enough to double-check
méthadone is uncommon French at frequency #56,772 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \me.ta.dɔn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Opioïde analgésique.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for méthadone, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is méthadone, spelled M-É-T-H-A-D-O-N-E.
Definition
- 1Opioïde analgésique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how méthadone appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Certains clients doivent par exemple boire de la méthadone devant leur pharmacien dans certains cas de dépendance aux narcotiques, alors que d'autres personnes doivent se présenter quotidiennement en pharmacie pour obtenir leurs médicaments sur ordonnance.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).