merci
\mɛʁ.si\
The verdict
“merci” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #197. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #197
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Miséricorde, grâce, pitié.
Corpus desk
Index FR-merci · merci · French
merci · rank #197 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #197
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH compte
Nearest frequency peer: compte (-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 « merci »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- travail
travail
99,807 corpus weight
- compte
compte
99,805 corpus weight
- merci
merci
99,804 corpus weight
- prendre
prendre
99,803 corpus weight
- veut
veut
99,802 corpus weight
- état
état
99,801 corpus weight
What this shows « merci » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | merci |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɛʁ.si\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #197 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « merci »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around merci (IPA \mɛʁ.si\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #197 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for merci, with forms such as "emrci", "mecri", and "mercci". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "MRC", "Mère", "mers", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is merci, spelled M-E-R-C-I.
Definition
- 1Miséricorde, grâce, pitié.
- 2Bon vouloir par lequel on épargne quelqu’un.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how merci appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On devrait beaucoup prier pour les familles, les familles me font peur. Que Dieu les reçoive à merci!
Les informaticiens joueront un grand rôle dans la croyance selon laquelle le langage humain est réductible à de l’information, manipulable à merci pourvu qu’on dispose de la clef.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emrci
- mecri
- mercci
- meric
- merrci
- mmerci
- mreci
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of merci - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).