MeToo
\miˈtu\
The verdict
“MeToo” is uncommon French (frequency #68,464 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a phrase. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,464
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fréquemment précédé d'un hashtag. Désignation du mouvement de lutte contre les violences sexuelles et sexistes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-metoo · MeToo · French
MeToo · rank #68,464 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,464
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Meter
Nearest frequency peer: Meter (-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 « MeToo »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mentaliste
mentaliste
31,540 corpus weight
- merlus
merlus
31,539 corpus weight
- Meter
Meter
31,538 corpus weight
- MeToo
MeToo
31,537 corpus weight
- Mey
Mey
31,535 corpus weight
- Micah
Micah
31,534 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « MeToo » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | MeToo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | \miˈtu\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #68,464 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « MeToo » en français
Rare enough to double-check
MeToo is uncommon French at frequency #68,464 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aphrase, transcribed \miˈtu\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Fréquemment précédé d'un hashtag. Désignation du mouvement de lutte contre les violences sexuelles et sexistes.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for MeToo in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is MeToo, spelled M-E-T-O-O.
Definition
- 1Fréquemment précédé d'un hashtag. Désignation du mouvement de lutte contre les violences sexuelles et sexistes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how MeToo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Médiatiser les affaires #MeToo ne suffit pas. Ce qui fait baisser la violence, ce sont des décisions politiques.
«Le mouvement Me Too est né dans l’endroit le plus profond et le plus sombre de mon âme», explique Tarana Burke. Le déclic se fait en 2006, quand elle écrit sur un morceau de papier «me too». Pour elle, l’expression permet aux jeunes femmes de sa communauté de partager leurs histoires, de développer l’«empouvoirement par l’empathie». C’est à la fois le ge…
Synonyms
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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