Metzger
The verdict
“Metzger” is uncommon French (frequency #66,108 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,108
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-metzger · Metzger · French
Metzger · rank #66,108 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,108
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Michelangelo
Nearest frequency peer: Michelangelo (+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 « Metzger »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mektoub
mektoub
33,896 corpus weight
- mentais
mentais
33,895 corpus weight
- Metzger
Metzger
33,893 corpus weight
- Michelangelo
Michelangelo
33,892 corpus weight
- microscopes
microscopes
33,891 corpus weight
- mii
mii
33,890 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Metzger » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Metzger |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #66,108 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Metzger » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Metzger is uncommon French at frequency #66,108 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Metzger, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Metzger, spelled M-E-T-Z-G-E-R.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Metzger appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Première rétrospective en France consacrée à Gustav Metzger, artiste écolo-punk avant tout le monde.
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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