merengue
\me.ʁɛn.ɡe\
The verdict
“merengue” is uncommon French (frequency #66,904 among 202,672 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,904
- frequency rank, French
- 202,672
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Genre musical né au milieu du XIXᵉ siècle à Saint-Domingue.
| 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) |
Where “merengue” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
merengue is uncommon French at frequency #66,904 among 202,672 “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.
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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Using “merengue”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is M-E-R-E-N-G-U-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \me.ʁɛn.ɡe\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.