mecha
\me.ka\
The verdict
“mecha” is uncommon French (frequency #70,828 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,828
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Thème de science-fiction, mettant en scène des personnages utilisant ou incarnant des armures robotisées, généralement de forme humanoïde.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mecha · mecha · French
mecha · rank #70,828 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,828
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH meneaux
Nearest frequency peer: meneaux (+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 « mecha »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- MCM
MCM
29,176 corpus weight
- mecha
mecha
29,173 corpus weight
- meneaux
meneaux
29,171 corpus weight
- Menou
Menou
29,170 corpus weight
- Mercœur
Mercœur
29,169 corpus weight
- merdias
merdias
29,168 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mecha » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mecha |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \me.ka\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #70,828 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mecha » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mecha is uncommon French at frequency #70,828 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \me.ka\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for mecha, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is mecha, spelled M-E-C-H-A.
Definition
- 1Thème de science-fiction, mettant en scène des personnages utilisant ou incarnant des armures robotisées, généralement de forme humanoïde.
- 2Armure sophistiquée, ou robot en tant que tel dont la fonction principale est généralement le combat.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mecha appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] l’auteur mêle ici avec brio l’univers des mechas japonais à l’ambiance d’Alien de Ridley Scott.
Dans l’univers des mangas, sont également hybrides les nombreux robots : mecha — robots animés —, cyborgs et autres « transhumains » aux formes fragiles transformés en corps puissants.
This word in other languages
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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