mercantile
\mɛʁ.kɑ̃.til\
The verdict
“mercantile” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #41,404. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #41,404
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui concerne le commerce.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mercantile · mercantile · French
mercantile · rank #41,404 · 15 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,404
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH means
Nearest frequency peer: means (-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 « mercantile »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- marnes
marnes
58,600 corpus weight
- means
means
58,598 corpus weight
- mercantile
mercantile
58,597 corpus weight
- Mermoz
Mermoz
58,596 corpus weight
- military
military
58,595 corpus weight
- milligrammes
milligrammes
58,594 corpus weight
What this shows « mercantile » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mercantile |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \mɛʁ.kɑ̃.til\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #41,404 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « mercantile »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around mercantile (IPA \mɛʁ.kɑ̃.til\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #41,404 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for mercantile, with forms such as "emrcantile", "mecrantile", and "meracntile". 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. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is mercantile, spelled M-E-R-C-A-N-T-I-L-E.
Definition
- 1Qui concerne le commerce.
- 2Qui cherche à tirer un gain d’argent unilatéral.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mercantile appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les romans de Sinclair Lewis sont une satire de la bourgeoisie et de ses préoccupations mercantiles et religieuses.
Même chez les hommes les plus honnêtes l'esprit mercantile avilit l'âme et détruit l'amour de l'indépendance.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emrcantile
- mecrantile
- meracntile
- mercanitle
- mercanntile
- mercantiel
- mercantille
- mercantlie
- mercanttile
- mercatnile
- merccantile
- mercnatile
- merrcantile
- mmercantile
- mrecantile
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mercantile - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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