Mercure
\mɛʁ.kyʁ\
The verdict
“Mercure” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,865. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,865
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dieu romain du commerce et des voleurs, messager des dieux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mercure · Mercure · French
Mercure · rank #7,865 · 10 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,865
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mentions
Nearest frequency peer: mentions (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « Mercure »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Martinique
Martinique
92,139 corpus weight
- maudit
maudit
92,138 corpus weight
- mentions
mentions
92,137 corpus weight
- Mercure
Mercure
92,136 corpus weight
- mythique
mythique
92,135 corpus weight
- nationaliste
nationaliste
92,133 corpus weight
What this shows « Mercure » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Mercure |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \mɛʁ.kyʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #7,865 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Mercure »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Mercure (IPA \mɛʁ.kyʁ\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #7,865 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Dieu romain du commerce et des voleurs, messager des dieux.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Mercure, with forms such as "emrcure", "mecrure", and "merccure". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "meure", "mesure", "murmure", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Mercure, spelled M-E-R-C-U-R-E.
Definition
- 1Dieu romain du commerce et des voleurs, messager des dieux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Mercure appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mercure, dieu du commerce, de l’éloquence et des voleurs, protecteur des voyageurs et des routes, Mercure, directeur incontesté des mercuriales, conduit ma voiture. Autrement, comment expliquer que mon apparition dans les villes du Midi coïncide presque toujours avec les dates des foires ou des marchés?
Alors un sous-officier, garçon boucher et Parisien, prit le rôle du Mercure à baguette noire, celui qui conduit les morts, et appela de noble voix : « La famille ! » Aussitôt quelques téléphonistes mettent les casques à la main et s’avancent avec des airs d’héritiers. Mercure continue : « Messieurs les membres de la confrérie des P.C.D.F. (Pauvres couillo…
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emrcure
- mecrure
- merccure
- mercrue
- mercuer
- mercurre
- merrcure
- merucre
- mmercure
- mrecure
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Mercure - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
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Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).