Megève
\mə.ʒɛv\
The verdict
“Megève” is uncommon French (frequency #51,605 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,605
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département de la Haute-Savoie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-megeve · Megève · French
Megève · rank #51,605 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,605
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Mendez
Nearest frequency peer: Mendez (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Megève »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Maus
Maus
48,399 corpus weight
- maîtrisait
maîtrisait
48,398 corpus weight
- Megève
Megève
48,396 corpus weight
- Mendez
Mendez
48,395 corpus weight
- mesurez
mesurez
48,394 corpus weight
- microbrasse…
microbrasserie
48,393 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Megève » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Megève |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \mə.ʒɛv\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #51,605 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Megève » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Megève is uncommon French at frequency #51,605 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \mə.ʒɛv\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Commune française, située dans le département de la Haute-Savoie.".
Megève doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Megève, spelled M-E-G-È-V-E.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département de la Haute-Savoie.
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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