métier
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,826
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
métier is aFrenchnoun. It means: Activité impliquant l’acquisition d’un savoir-faire particulier. Pronounced \me.tje\. It ranks #1,826 in French word frequency. Often confused with mette and mètre.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | métier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \me.tje\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,826 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for métier is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \me.tje\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,826 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for métier, with forms such as "metier", "mmétier", and "mtéier". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mette", "mètre", "Meyer", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is métier, spelled M-É-T-I-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Activité impliquant l’acquisition d’un savoir-faire particulier.
- 2Domaine d’activité d’une entreprise.
- 3S’emploie quelquefois par opposition au mot art.
- 4Habileté technique, expérience d’un art.
- 5Fait de faire habituellement quelque chose dans des vues intéressées, en faire une sorte de trafic.
- 6Mauvaise habitude.
- 7Activité malhonnête ou répréhensible.
- 8Mécanisme, dispositif qui sert à certaines fabrications, à certains ouvrages.
- 9Pour les productions de l’esprit, désigne un en-cours.
- 10Activité pratiquée par une unité de pêche et définie, au minimum, par une combinaison entre engin de pêche, espèce cible et zone d’activité.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: metier,mmétier,mtéier,méiter,méteir,métierr,métire,méttier,émtier
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for métier
Misspelling Variants of "métier"
Frequency rank: #1,826 in French
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Nearby French words
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