メートル
メートル · meetoru · JLPT N5 · noun
meter
📏 meetoru = French mètre, borrowed whole: me-e-to-ru
A loanword from French mètre, so it is written in katakana. Japanese adds vowels to break up consonant clusters: the tr becomes to-ru, and the long ー stretches the e. Say meter slowly with extra vowels and you get meetoru.