Mersch
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The verdict
“Mersch” is uncommon German (frequency #97,385 among 44,424 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,385
- frequency rank, German
- 44,424
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - eine Gemeinde in Luxemburg
Corpus desk
Index DE-mersch · Mersch · German
Mersch · rank #97,385 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,385
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 44,424
- PHOTO-FINISH mentioned
Nearest frequency peer: mentioned (-2 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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Mersch”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Menorca
Menorca
2,620 corpus weight
- Menschseins
Menschseins
2,619 corpus weight
- mentioned
mentioned
2,618 corpus weight
- Mersch
Mersch
2,616 corpus weight
- Metaboliten
Metaboliten
2,613 corpus weight
- Metaphorik
Metaphorik
2,612 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Mersch” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Mersch |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #97,385 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Mersch” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Mersch is uncommon German at frequency #97,385 among 44,424 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for Mersch in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is Mersch, spelled M-E-R-S-C-H.
Definition
- 1eine Gemeinde in Luxemburg
- 2Stadtteil von Drensteinfurt, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland
- 3Stadtteil von Jülich, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland
- 4Weiler in Haltern, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland
This word in other languages
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 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Mersch", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.