mek
\mɛk\
The verdict
“mek” is uncommon French (frequency #84,064 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a determiner. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,064
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nul, aucun, pas un.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mek · mek · French
mek · rank #84,064 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,064
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Melançon
Nearest frequency peer: Melançon (+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 « mek »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Maïdan
Maïdan
15,942 corpus weight
- mek
mek
15,937 corpus weight
- Melançon
Melançon
15,936 corpus weight
- menottés
menottés
15,935 corpus weight
- merina
merina
15,934 corpus weight
- messaline
messaline
15,933 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mek » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mek |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Determiner |
| IPA | \mɛk\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #84,064 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mek » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mek is uncommon French at frequency #84,064 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as adeterminer, transcribed \mɛk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nul, aucun, pas un.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for mek, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is mek, spelled M-E-K.
Definition
- 1Nul, aucun, pas un.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mek appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Luxe blot minon rovodestun zakon, mek zvak.
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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