meri
\me.ʁi\
The verdict
“meri” is uncommon French (frequency #89,921 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,921
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Technique utilisée au shakuhachi pour abaisser une note en baissant le menton sans changer de doigté.
Corpus desk
Index FR-meri · meri · French
meri · rank #89,921 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,921
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mentionnerai
Nearest frequency peer: mentionnerai (-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 « meri »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mef
mef
10,084 corpus weight
- Melfi
Melfi
10,083 corpus weight
- mense
mense
10,082 corpus weight
- mentionnerai
mentionnerai
10,081 corpus weight
- meri
meri
10,080 corpus weight
- mert
mert
10,079 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « meri » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | meri |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \me.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #89,921 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « meri » en français
Rare enough to double-check
meri is uncommon French at frequency #89,921 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \me.ʁi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Technique utilisée au shakuhachi pour abaisser une note en baissant le menton sans changer de doigté.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for meri, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is meri, spelled M-E-R-I.
Definition
- 1Technique utilisée au shakuhachi pour abaisser une note en baissant le menton sans changer de doigté.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how meri appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les cinq trous pour les doigts sont accordés en gamme pentatonique sans demi-tons, mais le joueur peut faire varier chaque timbre d’un ton complet ou plus, en utilisant des techniques appelées meri et kari, pour lesquelles l’angle de souffle permet d’ajuster le timbre vers le haut ou vers le bas.
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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