mettrait

\mɛ.tʁɛ\

/\mɛ.tʁɛ\/ verb

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The verdict

“mettrait” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,813. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#12,813
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
13
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du conditionnel de mettre.

Corpus desk

Index FR-mettrait · mettrait · French

mettrait · rank #12,813 · 10 variants · 13 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #12,813
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH mentionnée

Nearest frequency peer: mentionnée (-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 « mettrait »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « mettrait » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

mettrait vs mettras
75% similar
mettrait vs montrait
75% similar
mettrait vs mettront
75% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for mettrait
PropertyValue
Headwordmettrait
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\mɛ.tʁɛ\
Letters8
Frequency rank#12,813
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs13
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « mettrait »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).mettraitse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « mentionnée » (#12,812), « migrations » (#12,814), « mentaux » (#12,811). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « mettrait » est au #12,813. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around mettrait (IPA \mɛ.tʁɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #12,813 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du conditionnel de mettre.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for mettrait, with forms such as "emttrait", "metrait", and "metrtait". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 13 confusable-pair relationships, "mettras", "montrait", "mettront", 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 its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is mettrait, spelled M-E-T-T-R-A-I-T.

Definition

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

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • emttrait
  • metrait
  • metrtait
  • mettarit
  • mettraitt
  • mettrati
  • mettriat
  • mettrrait
  • mmettrait
  • mtetrait

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mettrait - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

emttrait2metrait1metrtait2mettarit2mettraitt1mettrati2mettriat2mettrrait1
Edit distance from "mettrait"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "mettrait"?
"mettrait" is spelled M-E-T-T-R-A-I-T. The IPA pronunciation is \mɛ.tʁɛ\.
What does "mettrait" mean?
As a verb, "mettrait" means: Troisième personne du singulier du conditionnel de mettre.
What words are commonly confused with "mettrait"?
"mettrait" is commonly confused with "mettras", "montrait", "mettront". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "mettrait"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "mettrait" is \mɛ.tʁɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "mettrait" come from?
"mettrait" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "mettrait", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

investis#12,800neurones#12,826panthéon#12,830passants#12,831

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

mentaux10 variantsmilices10 variantslyrique10 variantsmotivée10 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list