Mercie
\mɛʁ.si\
The verdict
“Mercie” is uncommon French (frequency #63,923 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,923
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Royaume anglo-saxon du Haut Moyen Âge, occupant principalement le centre-ouest de l’Angleterre d’aujourd’hui.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mercie · Mercie · French
Mercie · rank #63,923 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,923
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH menuet
Nearest frequency peer: menuet (-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 « Mercie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- meek
meek
36,081 corpus weight
- memoriam
memoriam
36,080 corpus weight
- menuet
menuet
36,079 corpus weight
- Mercie
Mercie
36,078 corpus weight
- Messer
Messer
36,077 corpus weight
- Messiaen
Messiaen
36,076 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Mercie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Mercie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \mɛʁ.si\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #63,923 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Mercie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Mercie is uncommon French at frequency #63,923 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \mɛʁ.si\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Royaume anglo-saxon du Haut Moyen Âge, occupant principalement le centre-ouest de l’Angleterre d’aujourd’hui.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Mercie in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Mercie, spelled M-E-R-C-I-E.
Definition
- 1Royaume anglo-saxon du Haut Moyen Âge, occupant principalement le centre-ouest de l’Angleterre d’aujourd’hui.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Mercie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les rois du Kent demeurent indépendants jusqu’en 725, date à laquelle ils reconnaissent la suprématie de la Mercie.
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); 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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