mettions
\mɛ.tjɔ̃\
The verdict
“mettions” is uncommon French (frequency #54,103 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,103
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de mettre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mettions · mettions · French
mettions · rank #54,103 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,103
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH meursault
Nearest frequency peer: meursault (+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 « mettions »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- menstruel
menstruel
45,901 corpus weight
- mesquinerie
mesquinerie
45,900 corpus weight
- mettions
mettions
45,898 corpus weight
- meursault
meursault
45,897 corpus weight
- miche
miche
45,896 corpus weight
- millionième
millionième
45,895 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mettions » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mettions |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \mɛ.tjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #54,103 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mettions » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mettions is uncommon French at frequency #54,103 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \mɛ.tjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for mettions in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, 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 explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is mettions, spelled M-E-T-T-I-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de mettre.
- 2Première personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent de mettre.
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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