mercerie
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#46,891
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
mercerie is aFrenchnoun. It means: Terme collectif par lequel on désigne les diverses marchandises qui servent pour l’habillement et la parure, comme le fil, les aiguilles, les épingles, les rubans, etc. Mais aussi des armes, des co... Pronounced \mɛʁ.sə.ʁi\. Often confused with Mercure and Mercer.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mercerie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɛʁ.sə.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #46,891 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for mercerie is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɛʁ.sə.ʁi\. Corpus data places it at rank #46,891 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for mercerie, with forms such as "emrcerie", "mecrerie", and "merccerie". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Mercure", "Mercer", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is mercerie, spelled M-E-R-C-E-R-I-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Terme collectif par lequel on désigne les diverses marchandises qui servent pour l’habillement et la parure, comme le fil, les aiguilles, les épingles, les rubans, etc. Mais aussi des armes, des couteaux, des métaux, des bijoux, des parures, pièces d'ameublement, des cuirs, des étoffes…
- 2Échoppe, magasin ou boutique où s’exerce ce commerce.
- 3Magasin de vêtements pour hommes.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: emrcerie,mecrerie,merccerie,merceire,mercerei,mercerrie,mercreie,merecrie,merrcerie,mmercerie,mrecerie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for mercerie
Misspelling Variants of "mercerie"
Frequency rank: #46,891 in French
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Nearby French words
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