Mendez
The verdict
“Mendez” is uncommon French (frequency #51,606 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,606
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mendez · Mendez · French
Mendez · rank #51,606 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,606
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Megève
Nearest frequency peer: Megève (-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 « Mendez »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- micron
micron
48,392 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Mendez » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Mendez |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #51,606 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Mendez » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Mendez is uncommon French at frequency #51,606 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Mendez in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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 Mendez, spelled M-E-N-D-E-Z.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Mendez appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le Dr Costa Mendez part pour New York où il assistera, jusqu’au 18 octobre, à la 23e assemblée générale des Nations-Unies.
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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