memoriam
\mɨ.mu.ɾi.ɐ̃ʊ̯̃\
The verdict
“memoriam” is uncommon French (frequency #63,921 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,921
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de memoriar.
Corpus desk
Index FR-memoriam · memoriam · French
memoriam · rank #63,921 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,921
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH meek
Nearest frequency peer: meek (-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 « memoriam »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- medico
medico
36,082 corpus weight
- meek
meek
36,081 corpus weight
- memoriam
memoriam
36,080 corpus weight
- menuet
menuet
36,079 corpus weight
- Mercie
Mercie
36,078 corpus weight
- Messer
Messer
36,077 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « memoriam » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | memoriam |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \mɨ.mu.ɾi.ɐ̃ʊ̯̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #63,921 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « memoriam » en français
Rare enough to double-check
memoriam is uncommon French at frequency #63,921 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \mɨ.mu.ɾi.ɐ̃ʊ̯̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de memoriar.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for memoriam, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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 easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is memoriam, spelled M-E-M-O-R-I-A-M.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de memoriar.
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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