merah
The verdict
“merah” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #23,609. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #23,609
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rouge.
Corpus desk
Index FR-merah · merah · French
merah · rank #23,609 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,609
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mentez
Nearest frequency peer: mentez (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « merah »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- MBA
MBA
76,396 corpus weight
- medium
medium
76,395 corpus weight
- mentez
mentez
76,393 corpus weight
- merah
merah
76,392 corpus weight
- minerais
minerais
76,391 corpus weight
- minérales
minérales
76,390 corpus weight
What this shows « merah » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | merah |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #23,609 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « merah »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around merah, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #23,609 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Rouge.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for merah, with forms such as "emrah", "mearh", and "merahh". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Mère", "mers", "mira", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 merah, spelled M-E-R-A-H.
Definition
- 1Rouge.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how merah appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dia punya sebuah apel merah.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emrah
- mearh
- merahh
- merha
- merrah
- mmerah
- mreah
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of merah - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).