métonymie
\me.tɔ.ni.mi\
The verdict
“métonymie” is uncommon French (frequency #56,129 among 202,672 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,129
- frequency rank, French
- 202,672
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Procédé du langage qui consiste à remplacer un mot par un autre mot qui entretient avec le premier un rapport logique, par exemple un objet par sa matière, un contenu par son contenant, la partie p...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | métonymie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \me.tɔ.ni.mi\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #56,129 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “métonymie” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
métonymie is uncommon French at frequency #56,129 among 202,672 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \me.tɔ.ni.mi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Procédé du langage qui consiste à remplacer un mot par un autre mot qui entretient avec le premier un rapport logique, par exemple un objet par sa matière, un contenu par son contenant, la partie p...".
No generated misspelling entries exist for métonymie in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is métonymie, spelled M-É-T-O-N-Y-M-I-E.
Definition
- 1Procédé du langage qui consiste à remplacer un mot par un autre mot qui entretient avec le premier un rapport logique, par exemple un objet par sa matière, un contenu par son contenant, la partie par le tout…
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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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Using “métonymie”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is M-É-T-O-N-Y-M-I-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \me.tɔ.ni.mi\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.