mech
\mɛk\
The verdict
“mech” is uncommon French (frequency #95,052 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,052
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mecha : robot de combat piloté.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mech · mech · French
mech · rank #95,052 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,052
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH meringues
Nearest frequency peer: meringues (+2 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « mech »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- maxis
maxis
4,954 corpus weight
- Mazières
Mazières
4,952 corpus weight
- mech
mech
4,949 corpus weight
- meringues
meringues
4,947 corpus weight
- Metall
Metall
4,946 corpus weight
- milfs
milfs
4,941 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mech » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mech |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɛk\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #95,052 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mech » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mech is uncommon French at frequency #95,052 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mɛk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Mecha : robot de combat piloté.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for mech in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is mech, spelled M-E-C-H.
Definition
- 1Mecha : robot de combat piloté.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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