mercier
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#12,198
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
14
similar word pairs
mercier is aFrenchnoun. It means: Membre de la mercerie, corps qui importait des marchandises d’orient. Pronounced \mɛʁ.sje\. Often confused with métier and mercis.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mercier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɛʁ.sje\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #12,198 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for mercier is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɛʁ.sje\. Corpus data places it at rank #12,198 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 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for mercier, with forms such as "emrcier", "mecrier", and "merccier". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "métier", "mercis", "mériter", and more, 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 mercier, spelled M-E-R-C-I-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Membre de la mercerie, corps qui importait des marchandises d’orient.
- 2Marchand ambulant vendant toutes sortes de marchandises et de colifichets.
- 3Vendeur en gros ou au détail d’articles permettant les travaux de couture, de confection ou de passementerie.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: emrcier,mecrier,merccier,merceir,mercierr,mercire,mericer,merrcier,mmercier,mrecier
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for mercier
Misspelling Variants of "mercier"
Frequency rank: #12,198 in French
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