metric
\ˈmɛt.ɹɪk\
The verdict
“metric” is uncommon French (frequency #85,015 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,015
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Métrique, relatif à l’unité de mesure de longueur mètre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-metric · metric · French
metric · rank #85,015 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,015
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Metellus
Nearest frequency peer: Metellus (-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 « metric »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- merlu
merlu
14,989 corpus weight
- messa
messa
14,988 corpus weight
- Metellus
Metellus
14,987 corpus weight
- metric
metric
14,986 corpus weight
- MIAGE
MIAGE
14,985 corpus weight
- Michaëlle
Michaëlle
14,984 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « metric » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | metric |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈmɛt.ɹɪk\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #85,015 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « metric » en français
Rare enough to double-check
metric is uncommon French at frequency #85,015 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ˈmɛt.ɹɪk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for metric in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented 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 metric, spelled M-E-T-R-I-C.
Definition
- 1Métrique, relatif à l’unité de mesure de longueur mètre.
- 2Métrique, relatif au système métrique.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).