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métrage

French, noun/me.tʁaʒ/

métrage is spelled M-É-T-R-A-G-E (7 letters) and appears 11 times per million words in written French, the 6,071st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Métrage is a French masculine noun meaning “footage” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action de métrer ou résultat de cette action”.

What does métrage mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinefootage

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Action de métrer ou résultat de cette action. 2. Dimensions d'un coupon de tissu. 3. Film.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of métrage

  • métrages plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce métrage?

  • /me.tʁaʒ/
  • \me.tʁaʒ\
  • [ˈme.tʁ̥aːʒ]

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to métrage

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is métrage in French?

métrage appears 11 times per million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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