Mensch
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#85,930
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
Mensch is aFrenchnoun. It means: Être humain, humain, homme (en tant que taxon). Pronounced \mɛnʃ\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Mensch |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɛnʃ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #85,930 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Mensch is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɛnʃ\. Corpus data places it at rank #85,930 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Mensch in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is Mensch, spelled M-E-N-S-C-H, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Être humain, humain, homme (en tant que taxon).
- 2Genre homo.
- 3Espèce homo sapiens.
- 4Être humain, humain, personne (un individu du taxon).
- 5Être humain, impliquant une espèce avec des considération morales.
- 6Être humain, impliquant une espèce avec les restrictions humaines.
- 7Être humain, impliquant une espèce ayant le droit à la dignité.
- 8Être humain, soulignant la normalité, ignorant la fonction sociale.
- 9Manière de s’adresser à une personne, impliquant un reproche.
Frequency rank: #85,930 in French
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