Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for May 3, 2026 is:
 
 
 
 
 métier &#149; \MET-yay\&nbsp; &#149; noun
 Métier, sometimes styled metier, is a formal word that refers to something that a person does very well.

// After trying several careers, she found her true métier in computer science.

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 Examples:
 “Turning from his father’s trade of corset-making, <a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Paine">[Thomas] Paine</a> tried his hand at business, met and impressed Benjamin Franklin in London, sailed to America, and there found his true metier as a pamphleteer and radical.” — Matthew Redmond, The Conversation, 9 Oct. 2025
 
 
 
 Did you know?
 Over the centuries, English has borrowed several French words related in some way to work or working, among them <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/oeuvre">oeuvre</a> (“a substantial body of work of a writer, an artist, or a composer”) and <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/travail">travail</a> (“work of a laborious nature, toil”). Métier (pronounced /MET-yay/) is another. It is sometimes translated from its original French as “job” or “career” but in that language it more accurately refers to the trade or profession in which one works (it traces back to the Old French mistier, meaning “duty, craft, profession”). In English we tend toward a narrower meaning for métier, referring either to a job for which one is perfectly suited or a particular field in which one is extremely skilled. This makes it a synonym of another French borrowing, <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/forte">forte</a>.

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