Mensah
The verdict
“Mensah” is uncommon French (frequency #79,529 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,529
- 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-mensah · Mensah · French
Mensah · rank #79,529 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,529
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Memnon
Nearest frequency peer: Memnon (-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 « Mensah »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Mediterrane…
Mediterranean
20,475 corpus weight
- Memnon
Memnon
20,473 corpus weight
- Mensah
Mensah
20,472 corpus weight
- meunière
meunière
20,471 corpus weight
- micropartic…
microparticules
20,468 corpus weight
- Midlands
Midlands
20,467 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Mensah » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Mensah |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #79,529 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Mensah » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Mensah is uncommon French at frequency #79,529 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Mensah in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 Mensah, spelled M-E-N-S-A-H.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Mensah appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour le reste, un dernier match, avant la Coupe du monde, sans blessure pour les Parisiens, grâce à la collaboration des Auxerrois, même si un seul d’entre ceux-ci est, a priori, concerné : le latéral ghanéen Gideon Mensah.
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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