Mercœur
The verdict
“Mercœur” is uncommon French (frequency #70,832 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,832
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département de la Corrèze.
Corpus desk
Index FR-merc-ur · Mercœur · French
Mercœur · rank #70,832 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,832
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Menou
Nearest frequency peer: Menou (-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 « Mercœur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mecha
mecha
29,173 corpus weight
- meneaux
meneaux
29,171 corpus weight
- Menou
Menou
29,170 corpus weight
- Mercœur
Mercœur
29,169 corpus weight
- merdias
merdias
29,168 corpus weight
- meublées
meublées
29,165 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Mercœur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Mercœur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #70,832 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Mercœur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Mercœur is uncommon French at frequency #70,832 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for Mercœur in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Mercœur, spelled M-E-R-C-Œ-U-R.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département de la Corrèze.
- 2Commune française, située dans le département de la Haute-Loire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Mercœur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Enfin, un homme de 73 a été héliporté jusqu’au centre hospitalier de Limoges après un accident de quad survenu sur la commune de Mercœur le mardi 13 juin.
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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