mettra
\mɛ.tʁa\
The verdict
“mettra” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,414. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,414
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 19
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du futur de mettre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mettra · mettra · French
mettra · rank #6,414 · 7 variants · 19 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,414
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH merveille
Nearest frequency peer: merveille (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « mettra »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- majoritaire
majoritaire
93,590 corpus weight
- maux
maux
93,589 corpus weight
- merveille
merveille
93,588 corpus weight
- mettra
mettra
93,587 corpus weight
- Morgan
Morgan
93,586 corpus weight
- music
music
93,585 corpus weight
What this shows « mettra » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mettra |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \mɛ.tʁa\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #6,414 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « mettra »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around mettra (IPA \mɛ.tʁa\), averb. Corpus frequency is #6,414 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du futur de mettre.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for mettra, with forms such as "emttra", "metra", and "metrta". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, 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 borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is mettra, spelled M-E-T-T-R-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du futur de mettre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mettra appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On lui mettra un licol solide et on l’attachera dans son écurie en ayant soin de laisser constamment un homme auprès de lui, afin de prévenir tout accident ; on l’accoutumera peu à peu aux soins du pansage, à se laisser bridonner et débridonner, et l’on s’efforcera, chaque fois qu’il manifestera de la crainte, de le calmer et de le mettre en confiance en…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emttra
- metra
- metrta
- mettar
- mettrra
- mmettra
- mtetra
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mettra - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).