métreur
\me.tʁœʁ\
The verdict
“métreur” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne qui mesure au mètre, dont la profession est de mesurer au mètre soit certaines matières, soit des travaux d’architecture.
Corpus desk
Index FR-metreur · métreur · French
métreur · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | métreur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \me.tʁœʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « métreur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
métreur is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \me.tʁœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Personne qui mesure au mètre, dont la profession est de mesurer au mètre soit certaines matières, soit des travaux d’architecture.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for métreur, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is métreur, spelled M-É-T-R-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Personne qui mesure au mètre, dont la profession est de mesurer au mètre soit certaines matières, soit des travaux d’architecture.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how métreur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il travaillait pour papa en tant que métreur.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.