mercat
noun
mercat is a noun meaning “A mermaid cat” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled M-E-R-C-A-T, and it appears about once in every 28 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of mercat is mercats.
What does mercat mean?
noun
- 1
A mermaid cat.
- 2
obsoleteMarket; trade.
December 22 1678, Thomas Sprat, A Sermon Preached before the King at White-Hall With irresistible majesty and authority our Saviour removed the exchange, and drove the mercat out of the temple.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of mercat
- mercats plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is mercat?
Mercat appears about once in every 28 million words in written English, the 159,707th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does mercat come from?
From mer- + cat.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).