merdam
\mɛʁ.dam\
The verdict
“merdam” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Exclamation de colère, d’irritation ou de déception.
Corpus desk
Index FR-merdam · merdam · French
merdam · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | merdam |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | \mɛʁ.dam\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « merdam » en français
Rare enough to double-check
merdam is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as aninterjection, transcribed \mɛʁ.dam\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Exclamation de colère, d’irritation ou de déception.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for merdam, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. 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.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is merdam, spelled M-E-R-D-A-M.
Definition
- 1Exclamation de colère, d’irritation ou de déception.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how merdam appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
25 juillet 1941 – « Ma fille, quand tu auras vingt et un ans, tu feras ce que tu voudras. En attendant, c’est moi qui suis responsable de toi. » Merdam.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.