merci beaucoup
\mɛʁ.si bo.ku\
The verdict
“merci beaucoup” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Formule de politesse pour exprimer un vif remerciement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-merci-beaucoup · merci beaucoup · French
merci beaucoup · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | merci beaucoup |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | \mɛʁ.si bo.ku\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
merci beaucoup is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as aninterjection, transcribed \mɛʁ.si bo.ku\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Formule de politesse pour exprimer un vif remerciement.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for merci beaucoup, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is merci beaucoup, spelled M-E-R-C-I- -B-E-A-U-C-O-U-P.
Definition
- 1Formule de politesse pour exprimer un vif remerciement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how merci beaucoup appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— Les bus sont fréquents? — Euh, oui. Il y a un bus tous les quinze minutes. — Merci beaucoup, monsieur.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.