mets
French, noun/mɛ/
mets is spelled M-E-T-S (4 letters) and appears 58 times per million words in written French, the 1,441st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mets is a French masculine noun meaning “dish” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/second-person singular indicative present of mettre. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Chacun des aliments apprêtés qu’on sert pour les repas”.
What does mets mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinedish
verb
- 1
first/second-person singular indicative present
- 2
second-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Chacun des aliments apprêtés qu’on sert pour les repas.
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.
How do you pronounce mets?
- /mɛ/
- \mɛ\
- [mɛ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to mets
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is mets in French?
mets appears 58 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).