métronome
French, noun/me.tʁɔ.nɔm/
métronome is spelled M-É-T-R-O-N-O-M-E (9 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written French, the 51,956th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Métronome is a French masculine noun meaning “metronome” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Instrument d’horlogerie qui sert à battre la mesure”.
What does métronome mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinemetronome
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Instrument d’horlogerie qui sert à battre la mesure.
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 métronome
- métronomes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce métronome?
- /me.tʁɔ.nɔm/
- \me.tʁɔ.nɔm\
- [me.tʁɔ.nɔm]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to métronome
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is métronome in French?
métronome appears about once in every 3 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).