mery
"mery" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“mery” is uncommon English (frequency #92,868 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,868
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Obsolete form of merry.
Corpus desk
Index EN-mery · mery · English
mery · rank #92,868 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,868
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH microcredit
Nearest frequency peer: microcredit (+3 rank slots)
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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 “mery”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- mediumship
mediumship
7,142 corpus weight
- Meka
Meka
7,139 corpus weight
- mery
mery
7,133 corpus weight
- microcredit
microcredit
7,130 corpus weight
- microelectr…
microelectronic
7,129 corpus weight
- Micronesian
Micronesian
7,128 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “mery” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mery |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #92,868 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mery” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
mery is uncommon English at frequency #92,868 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Obsolete form of merry.".
mery doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is mery, spelled M-E-R-Y.
Definition
- 1Obsolete form of merry.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mery appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A Yonge gentylman of the age of .xx. yere some whate dysposyd to myrth and game on a tyme talkyd with a gentylwoman which was ryght wyfe and also mery.
As plesaunt to the ere as the blacke sanctus Of a sad sorte vpon a mery pyn.
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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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.