merina
The verdict
“merina” is uncommon French (frequency #84,067 among 202,672 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,067
- frequency rank, French
- 202,672
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Relatif au peuple Merina, sa langue et ses coutumes.
| 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) |
Where “merina” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
merina is uncommon French at frequency #84,067 among 202,672 “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.
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 “merina”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is M-E-R-I-N-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.