merina
The verdict
“merina” is uncommon French (frequency #84,067 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,067
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif au peuple Merina, sa langue et ses coutumes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-merina · merina · French
merina · rank #84,067 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,067
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH menottés
Nearest frequency peer: menottés (-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 « merina »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mek
mek
15,937 corpus weight
- Melançon
Melançon
15,936 corpus weight
- menottés
menottés
15,935 corpus weight
- merina
merina
15,934 corpus weight
- messaline
messaline
15,933 corpus weight
- messires
messires
15,932 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « merina » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | merina |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #84,067 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « merina » en français
Rare enough to double-check
merina is uncommon French at frequency #84,067 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Relatif au peuple Merina, sa langue et ses coutumes.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for merina, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is merina, spelled M-E-R-I-N-A.
Definition
- 1Relatif au peuple Merina, sa langue et ses coutumes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how merina appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais la traversée des plaines et des hauts-plateaux du pays mérina est éprouvante.
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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