mts
\ɛm.te.ɛs\
The verdict
“mts” is uncommon French (frequency #68,483 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,483
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Système d’unités de mesure, destiné à l’industrie et créé en 1919, et supplanté par le Système international (SI) en 1961.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mts · mts · French
mts · rank #68,483 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,483
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Mre
Nearest frequency peer: Mre (-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 « mts »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mornes
mornes
31,522 corpus weight
- Mre
Mre
31,519 corpus weight
- mts
mts
31,518 corpus weight
- multilatéra…
multilatéraux
31,516 corpus weight
- multipartis…
multipartisme
31,515 corpus weight
- musicologue
musicologue
31,514 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mts » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mts |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ɛm.te.ɛs\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #68,483 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mts » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mts is uncommon French at frequency #68,483 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ɛm.te.ɛs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Système d’unités de mesure, destiné à l’industrie et créé en 1919, et supplanté par le Système international (SI) en 1961.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for mts, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is mts, spelled M-T-S.
Definition
- 1Système d’unités de mesure, destiné à l’industrie et créé en 1919, et supplanté par le Système international (SI) en 1961.
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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