merlot
[meɾˈlot̪]
The verdict
“merlot” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #61,747 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #61,747
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Variedad de uva de vinificación de color azul oscuro, que se utiliza tanto como uva de mezcla como para vinos varietales. Su suavidad y "carnosidad", combinadas con su maduración más temprana, la c...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | merlot |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [meɾˈlot̪] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #61,747 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “merlot” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for merlot is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [meɾˈlot̪]. Corpus data places it at rank #61,747 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Variedad de uva de vinificación de color azul oscuro, que se utiliza tanto como uva de mezcla como para vinos varietales. Su suavidad y "carnosidad", combinadas con su maduración más temprana, la c...".
No misspelling variants are generated for merlot in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. 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.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is merlot, spelled M-E-R-L-O-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Variedad de uva de vinificación de color azul oscuro, que se utiliza tanto como uva de mezcla como para vinos varietales. Su suavidad y "carnosidad", combinadas con su maduración más temprana, la convierten en una uva popular para mezclar con la cabernet sauvignon, más dura y de maduración tardía, que tiende a tener mayor concentración de taninos.
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 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “merlot”
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is M-E-R-L-O-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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