métropolisation
\me.tʁɔ.pɔ.li.za.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“métropolisation” is uncommon French (frequency #86,950 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,950
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fait de métropoliser, d’organiser un territoire autour d’une métropole.
Corpus desk
Index FR-metropolisation · métropolisation · French
métropolisation · rank #86,950 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,950
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH métallurgiste
Nearest frequency peer: métallurgiste (-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 « métropolisation »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mémorialiste
mémorialiste
13,054 corpus weight
- mémoriaux
mémoriaux
13,053 corpus weight
- métallurgis…
métallurgiste
13,052 corpus weight
- métropolisa…
métropolisation
13,051 corpus weight
- nab
nab
13,049 corpus weight
- naba
naba
13,048 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « métropolisation » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | métropolisation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \me.tʁɔ.pɔ.li.za.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Frequency rank | #86,950 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « métropolisation » en français
Rare enough to double-check
métropolisation is uncommon French at frequency #86,950 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \me.tʁɔ.pɔ.li.za.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Fait de métropoliser, d’organiser un territoire autour d’une métropole.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for métropolisation, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is métropolisation, spelled M-É-T-R-O-P-O-L-I-S-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Fait de métropoliser, d’organiser un territoire autour d’une métropole.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how métropolisation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les grandes manœuvres de métropolisation ont toujours été assez limitées, estime le géographe de formation.
La solution, selon lui, consisterait à donner un appel d’air au marché locatif privé, avec, d’abord, une réglementation locale en matière d’urbanisme moins rigide, ensuite, un coefficient d’occupation des sols plus large et enfin, une métropolisation de la politique d’urbanisme.
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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