merengue
\me.ʁɛn.ɡe\
The verdict
“merengue” is uncommon French (frequency #66,904 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,904
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Genre musical né au milieu du XIXᵉ siècle à Saint-Domingue.
Corpus desk
Index FR-merengue · merengue · French
merengue · rank #66,904 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,904
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH menues
Nearest frequency peer: menues (-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 « merengue »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Mecklembourg
Mecklembourg
33,100 corpus weight
- menteuses
menteuses
33,099 corpus weight
- menues
menues
33,098 corpus weight
- merengue
merengue
33,097 corpus weight
- mies
mies
33,096 corpus weight
- migrateur
migrateur
33,095 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « merengue » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | merengue |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \me.ʁɛn.ɡe\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #66,904 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « merengue » en français
Rare enough to double-check
merengue is uncommon French at frequency #66,904 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \me.ʁɛn.ɡe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for merengue, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 merengue, spelled M-E-R-E-N-G-U-E.
Definition
- 1Genre musical né au milieu du XIXᵉ siècle à Saint-Domingue.
- 2Danse dansée sur cette musique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how merengue appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour lui, le merengue dominicain et la méringue haïtienne étaient frère et sœur.
Excepté quand les Dominicains qui étaient majoritaires faisaient la fête et que le rythme du merengue envahissait les rues du quartier et que les autres habitants avaient envie de disparaître ou de voir tous les Dominicains disparaître de la surface de la planète Terre.
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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