mercado
\meɾˈka.ðo\
The verdict
“mercado” is uncommon French (frequency #61,694 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,694
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Marché (lieu public où l’on vend et achète).
Corpus desk
Index FR-mercado · mercado · French
mercado · rank #61,694 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,694
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Merad
Nearest frequency peer: Merad (-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 « mercado »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- meditation
meditation
38,310 corpus weight
- Menthon
Menthon
38,309 corpus weight
- Merad
Merad
38,308 corpus weight
- mercado
mercado
38,307 corpus weight
- mesquins
mesquins
38,305 corpus weight
- meteor
meteor
38,304 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mercado » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mercado |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \meɾˈka.ðo\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #61,694 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mercado » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mercado is uncommon French at frequency #61,694 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \meɾˈka.ðo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for mercado in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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 mercado, spelled M-E-R-C-A-D-O.
Definition
- 1Marché (lieu public où l’on vend et achète).
- 2Marché (segment d’activité économique correspondant à une offre et demande spécifiques).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mercado appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Los campesinos huyeron, abandonando sus animales en el mercado.
mercado de acciones
Synonyms
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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