Merah
"merah" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Merah” is uncommon English (frequency #63,795 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,795
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname from Arabic.
Corpus desk
Index EN-merah · Merah · English
Merah · rank #63,795 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,795
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH memorialize
Nearest frequency peer: memorialize (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “Merah”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- McGonagall
McGonagall
36,213 corpus weight
- memorialize
memorialize
36,207 corpus weight
- Merah
Merah
36,206 corpus weight
- microarray
microarray
36,204 corpus weight
- Millbrook
Millbrook
36,202 corpus weight
- mincing
mincing
36,200 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Merah” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Merah |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #63,795 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Merah” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Merah is uncommon English at frequency #63,795 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A surname from Arabic.".
Merah has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Arabic مَرَاح (marāḥ). The correct English form is Merah, spelled M-E-R-A-H.
Definition
- 1A surname from Arabic.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Merah appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mohamed Merah, the man believed to be the gunman on a scooter who killed seven people in south-western France, was killed in an armed siege after police surrounded his block of flats in Toulouse. […] Mohamed Merah was from Toulouse where he grew up on a housing estate in Les Izards, a troubled district in the north-east of the city with a large North Afri…
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic مَرَاح (marāḥ).
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).