Mensah

name

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

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Mensah » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Mensah
PropertyValue
HeadwordMensah
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters6
Frequency rank#79,529
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « Mensah » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).Mensahtombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « Memnon » (#79,528), « meunière » (#79,530), « Mediterranean » (#79,526). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « Mensah » est au #79,529. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Nom de famille.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how Mensah appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Mensah"?
"Mensah" is spelled M-E-N-S-A-H.
What does "Mensah" mean?
As a proper noun, "Mensah" means: Nom de famille.
What language does "Mensah" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Mensah", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list