Mercosur
\mɛʁ.kɔ.syʁ\
The verdict
“Mercosur” is uncommon French (frequency #55,436 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,436
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Communauté économique des pays de l’Amérique du Sud.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mercosur · Mercosur · French
Mercosur · rank #55,436 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,436
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH MCs
Nearest frequency peer: MCs (-2 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 « Mercosur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Maurer
Maurer
44,570 corpus weight
- Mayweather
Mayweather
44,569 corpus weight
- MCs
MCs
44,567 corpus weight
- Mercosur
Mercosur
44,565 corpus weight
- milanaise
milanaise
44,562 corpus weight
- minions
minions
44,560 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Mercosur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Mercosur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \mɛʁ.kɔ.syʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #55,436 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Mercosur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Mercosur is uncommon French at frequency #55,436 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \mɛʁ.kɔ.syʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Communauté économique des pays de l’Amérique du Sud.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Mercosur in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 Mercosur, spelled M-E-R-C-O-S-U-R.
Definition
- 1Communauté économique des pays de l’Amérique du Sud.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Mercosur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Plus grave encore à leurs yeux : l’accord commercial avec le Mercosur (Brésil, Argentine, Paraguay, Uruguay, Bolivie). Ce sont 90 000 tonnes de viande bovine, cette fois, qui pèsent dans la balance.
Le Mercosur avait déjà dépassé son ambition initiale : la promotion des échanges, un objectif atteint en dépit des dérogations et entorses au libre-échange encore persistantes. Comme l’UE, ses pays membres ont harmonisé leurs passeports, qui portent désormais le nom du Mercosur au-dessus de celui de la nation émettrice.
Synonyms
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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