merengues
\me.ʁɛn.ɡe\
The verdict
“merengues” is uncommon French (frequency #98,244 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,244
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de merengue.
Corpus desk
Index FR-merengues · merengues · French
merengues · rank #98,244 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,244
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH meow
Nearest frequency peer: meow (-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 « merengues »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Meilhac
Meilhac
1,762 corpus weight
- meow
meow
1,758 corpus weight
- merengues
merengues
1,757 corpus weight
- mermaid
mermaid
1,756 corpus weight
- miaulements
miaulements
1,754 corpus weight
- miners
miners
1,753 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « merengues » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | merengues |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \me.ʁɛn.ɡe\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #98,244 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « merengues » en français
Rare enough to double-check
merengues is uncommon French at frequency #98,244 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \me.ʁɛn.ɡe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de merengue.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for merengues, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is merengues, spelled M-E-R-E-N-G-U-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de merengue.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how merengues appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Biguines, sambas et merengues se succèdent.
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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