merder
\mɛʁ.de\
The verdict
“merder” is uncommon French (frequency #50,358 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,358
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ne pas arriver à faire le meilleur, faire de la merde.
Corpus desk
Index FR-merder · merder · French
merder · rank #50,358 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,358
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH merchandising
Nearest frequency peer: merchandising (-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 « merder »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mediator
mediator
49,646 corpus weight
- mercator
mercator
49,645 corpus weight
- merchandisi…
merchandising
49,644 corpus weight
- merder
merder
49,643 corpus weight
- mesquine
mesquine
49,642 corpus weight
- migrent
migrent
49,640 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « merder » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | merder |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \mɛʁ.de\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #50,358 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « merder » en français
Rare enough to double-check
merder is uncommon French at frequency #50,358 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \mɛʁ.de\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ne pas arriver à faire le meilleur, faire de la merde.".
merder doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is merder, spelled M-E-R-D-E-R.
Definition
- 1Ne pas arriver à faire le meilleur, faire de la merde.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how merder appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« Tu sais », dit-il au moment où le serveur posait leurs verres devant eux, « j’ai vraiment merdé sur cette affaire, du début à la fin. Si l’autre n’avait pas remarqué l’absence de son tableau, on serait encore en train de patauger.
This word in other languages
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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