mercator
\merˈkaː.tor\
The verdict
“mercator” is uncommon French (frequency #50,356 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,356
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Marchand.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mercator · mercator · French
mercator · rank #50,356 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,356
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mediator
Nearest frequency peer: mediator (-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 « mercator »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mead
mead
49,647 corpus weight
- mediator
mediator
49,646 corpus weight
- mercator
mercator
49,645 corpus weight
- merchandisi…
merchandising
49,644 corpus weight
- merder
merder
49,643 corpus weight
- mesquine
mesquine
49,642 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mercator » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mercator |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \merˈkaː.tor\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #50,356 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mercator » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mercator is uncommon French at frequency #50,356 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \merˈkaː.tor\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Marchand.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for mercator in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is mercator, spelled M-E-R-C-A-T-O-R.
Definition
- 1Marchand.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).