mettra

/\mɛ.tʁa\/ verb

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#6,414

in French word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

19

similar word pairs

mettra is aFrenchverb. It means: Troisième personne du singulier du futur de mettre. Pronounced \mɛ.tʁa\. It ranks #6,414 in French word frequency. Often confused with motta and mettre.

Key facts for mettra
PropertyValue
Headwordmettra
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\mɛ.tʁa\
Letters6
Frequency rank#6,414
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs19
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of mettra in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for mettra is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɛ.tʁa\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,414 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Troisième personne du singulier du futur de mettre.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for mettra, with forms such as "emttra", "metra", and "metrta". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 19 confusable-pair relationships, "motta", "mettre", "montra", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 mettra, spelled M-E-T-T-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du singulier du futur de mettre.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: emttra,metra,metrta,mettar,mettrra,mmettra,mtetra

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for mettra

Misspelling Variants of "mettra"

emttra6metra5metrta6mettar6mettrra7mmettra7mtetra6
Misspelling Variants of "mettra"

Frequency rank: #6,414 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "mettra"?
"mettra" is spelled M-E-T-T-R-A. The IPA pronunciation is \mɛ.tʁa\.
What does "mettra" mean?
As a verb, "mettra" means: Troisième personne du singulier du futur de mettre.
What words are commonly confused with "mettra"?
"mettra" is commonly confused with "motta", "mettre", "montra". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "mettra"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "mettra" is \mɛ.tʁa\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "mettra" come from?
"mettra" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.