métro léger
\me.tʁo le.ʒe\
The verdict
“métro léger” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Transport urbain sur rail intermédiaire entre le tramway et le métro, pour sa vitesse, sa capacité et l’importance de ses infrastructures (il ressemble souvent à un tramway mais son parcours peut ê...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | métro léger |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \me.tʁo le.ʒe\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “métro léger” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for métro léger is 11 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \me.tʁo le.ʒe\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Transport urbain sur rail intermédiaire entre le tramway et le métro, pour sa vitesse, sa capacité et l’importance de ses infrastructures (il ressemble souvent à un tramway mais son parcours peut ê...".
No misspelling variants are generated for métro léger in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is métro léger, spelled M-É-T-R-O- -L-É-G-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Transport urbain sur rail intermédiaire entre le tramway et le métro, pour sa vitesse, sa capacité et l’importance de ses infrastructures (il ressemble souvent à un tramway mais son parcours peut être en partie souterrain, son parcours aérien sur la rue ou sur des voies séparées du reste de la circulation).
This word in other languages
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Using “métro léger”
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- The one correct French spelling is M-É-T-R-O- -L-É-G-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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