Meir
The verdict
“Meir” is uncommon French (frequency #62,442 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,442
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom masculin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-meir · Meir · French
Meir · rank #62,442 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,442
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mela
Nearest frequency peer: mela (+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 « Meir »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Matha
Matha
37,564 corpus weight
- Maximilian
Maximilian
37,562 corpus weight
- Meir
Meir
37,559 corpus weight
- mela
mela
37,558 corpus weight
- mello
mello
37,556 corpus weight
- Mikko
Mikko
37,555 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Meir » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Meir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #62,442 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Meir » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Meir is uncommon French at frequency #62,442 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prénom masculin.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Meir, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Meir, spelled M-E-I-R.
Definition
- 1Prénom masculin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Meir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« Les traitements les plus systématiquement étudiés ont été l’élimination des fluctuations hormonales par des traitements de suppression de l’ovulation ou la correction du dérèglement des neurotransmetteurs par des antidépresseurs ou des anxiolytiques », rapportent Teri Pearlstein et Meir Steiner pour le Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience.
On en est à la quatrième chanson, pas mal de choses sont en train de naître de lui à moi, et aussi avec les frères Meir et Yaacov Salah, qui sont très importants dans cette équation.
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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