mer
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#657
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
mer is aFrenchnoun. It means: Vaste étendue d’eau salée qui baigne les diverses parties de la terre. Pronounced \mɛʁ\. It ranks #657 in French word frequency. Often confused with mm and mi.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #657 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for mer is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɛʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #657 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for mer in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mm", "mi", "MR", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 mer, spelled M-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Vaste étendue d’eau salée qui baigne les diverses parties de la terre.
- 2Son état pour la navigation.
- 3Grande étendue de liquide.
- 4Vaste étendue.
- 5Meuble représentant une étendue liquide dans les armoiries. Il s’agit d'une zone colorée couvrant le tiers inférieur du champ (donc mouvant de la pointe) avec une ligne de découpe supérieure ondée rappelant les vagues ainsi que d’ombrages ou lignes également ondées sur la zone colorée. On la dit ombrée quand les vagues sont représentées d’un autre émail.
- 6Plaine basaltique grande et sombre de la Lune.
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Frequency rank: #657 in French
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