Merckx
\mɛʁks\
The verdict
“Merckx” is uncommon French (frequency #65,314 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,314
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille néerlandais
Corpus desk
Index FR-merckx · Merckx · French
Merckx · rank #65,314 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,314
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mentons
Nearest frequency peer: mentons (-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 « Merckx »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- menthol
menthol
34,690 corpus weight
- mentirais
mentirais
34,689 corpus weight
- mentons
mentons
34,688 corpus weight
- Merckx
Merckx
34,687 corpus weight
- mesurera
mesurera
34,686 corpus weight
- microfilm
microfilm
34,685 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Merckx » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Merckx |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \mɛʁks\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #65,314 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Merckx » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Merckx is uncommon French at frequency #65,314 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \mɛʁks\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille néerlandais".
No misspelling variants are generated for Merckx in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 Merckx, spelled M-E-R-C-K-X.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille néerlandais
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Merckx appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour cette cérémonie de nombreuses personnalités avaient fait le déplacement, dont Mme Merckx, sous-préfète d’Ussel, et M. Grandcoing, écrivain et parrain de la promotion 2023.
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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