métissages
\me.ti.saʒ\
The verdict
“métissages” is uncommon French (frequency #81,374 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,374
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de métissage.
Corpus desk
Index FR-metissages · métissages · French
métissages · rank #81,374 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,374
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH ménestrels
Nearest frequency peer: ménestrels (-2 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 « métissages »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- médicinaux
médicinaux
18,632 corpus weight
- mémorielles
mémorielles
18,630 corpus weight
- ménestrels
ménestrels
18,629 corpus weight
- métissages
métissages
18,627 corpus weight
- nanomatéria…
nanomatériaux
18,624 corpus weight
- Nantucket
Nantucket
18,623 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « métissages » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | métissages |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \me.ti.saʒ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #81,374 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « métissages » en français
Rare enough to double-check
métissages is uncommon French at frequency #81,374 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \me.ti.saʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de métissage.".
métissages has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is métissages, spelled M-É-T-I-S-S-A-G-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de métissage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how métissages appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Héritiers d’un passé multiséculaire et d’une expérience de métissages dont le swahili, à la fois langue et culture, est l’expression, les Comoriens ont adopté l’islam avant de connaître la colonisation française.
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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