méthamphétamine
\me.tɑ̃.fe.ta.min\
The verdict
“méthamphétamine” is uncommon French (frequency #52,857 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,857
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Drogue de synthèse psycho-stimulante hautement addictive.
Corpus desk
Index FR-methamphetamine · méthamphétamine · French
méthamphétamine · rank #52,857 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,857
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mélanine
Nearest frequency peer: mélanine (-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 « méthamphétamine »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- myth
myth
47,147 corpus weight
- mélanine
mélanine
47,145 corpus weight
- méthamphéta…
méthamphétamine
47,144 corpus weight
- métisses
métisses
47,143 corpus weight
- nacer
nacer
47,142 corpus weight
- Nanteuil
Nanteuil
47,141 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « méthamphétamine » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | méthamphétamine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \me.tɑ̃.fe.ta.min\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Frequency rank | #52,857 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « méthamphétamine » en français
Rare enough to double-check
méthamphétamine is uncommon French at frequency #52,857 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \me.tɑ̃.fe.ta.min\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Drogue de synthèse psycho-stimulante hautement addictive.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for méthamphétamine, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is méthamphétamine, spelled M-É-T-H-A-M-P-H-É-T-A-M-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Drogue de synthèse psycho-stimulante hautement addictive.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how méthamphétamine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quand la réalité rattrape la fiction ou plutôt s’en inspire. Actuellement, un trafic de méthamphétamine (meth) bleue a lieu dans les rues d’Albuquerque au Nouveau-Mexique. Ces mêmes rues ont servi de décors à la série Breaking Bad qui montre comment un professeur de chimie devient un narcotrafiquant. Ses connaissances en chimie sont telles qu’il est capab…
À côté de moi, Walter White, le personnage principal de la série Breaking Bad, qui fabriquait de la méthamphétamine dans son Winnebago, ressemblera à Hubert Sacy d’Éduc’alcool !
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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