mec
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#519
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
mec is aFrenchnoun. It means: Individu de sexe ou genre masculin. Pronounced \mɛk\. It ranks #519 in French word frequency. Often confused with mm and mi.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mec |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɛk\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #519 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for mec is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɛk\. Corpus data places it at rank #519 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for mec in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mm", "mi", "MR", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 French form is mec, spelled M-E-C, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Individu de sexe ou genre masculin.
- 2Homme d’un couple (s’utilise en général avec un possessif).
- 3Homme énergique, chef.
- 4Souteneur ; maquereau.
- 5Acronyme de « M.E.C. » signifiant « Mis En Cause » dans les procédures judiciaires effectuées par les gendarmes et les policiers dans leurs procès verbaux.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #519 in French
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Other entries that begin with the letter M in our French index: