Mégare
\me.ɡaʁ\
The verdict
“Mégare” is uncommon French (frequency #89,953 among 202,672 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,953
- frequency rank, French
- 202,672
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Ville grecque située à mi-chemin entre Corinthe et Athènes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-megare · Mégare · French
Mégare · rank #89,953 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,953
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 202,672
- PHOTO-FINISH Méjean
Nearest frequency peer: Méjean (+1 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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Mégare”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- munk
munk
10,052 corpus weight
- mygale
mygale
10,051 corpus weight
- mânes
mânes
10,050 corpus weight
- Mégare
Mégare
10,048 corpus weight
- Méjean
Méjean
10,047 corpus weight
- méridiennes
méridiennes
10,045 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Mégare” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Mégare |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \me.ɡaʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #89,953 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Mégare” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Mégare is uncommon French at frequency #89,953 among 202,672 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \me.ɡaʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ville grecque située à mi-chemin entre Corinthe et Athènes.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Mégare, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Mégare, spelled M-É-G-A-R-E.
Definition
- 1Ville grecque située à mi-chemin entre Corinthe et Athènes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Mégare appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les Athéniens occupèrent donc Mégare et Pègaï et édifièrent pour les Mégariens les longs murs qui joignent leur capitale à Nisaïa.
Pour moi, je me sens une telle envie de t’entendre que, dusses-tu aller à pied jusqu’à Mégare et, selon la méthode d’Hérodicos, aller au mur et en repartir, je ne resterais pas en arrière.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Mégare", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
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.