mérinos
\me.ʁi.nɔs\
The verdict
“mérinos” is uncommon French (frequency #50,381 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,381
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Race de mouton d’origine nord-africaine puis espagnole dont la toison est épaisse et dont la laine est très fine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-merinos · mérinos · French
mérinos · rank #50,381 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,381
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH nauséabond
Nearest frequency peer: nauséabond (+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 « mérinos »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- médiations
médiations
49,623 corpus weight
- médicinale
médicinale
49,622 corpus weight
- mérinos
mérinos
49,620 corpus weight
- nauséabond
nauséabond
49,619 corpus weight
- nem
nem
49,618 corpus weight
- niaiser
niaiser
49,617 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mérinos » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mérinos |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \me.ʁi.nɔs\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #50,381 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mérinos » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mérinos is uncommon French at frequency #50,381 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \me.ʁi.nɔs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for mérinos in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is mérinos, spelled M-É-R-I-N-O-S.
Definition
- 1Race de mouton d’origine nord-africaine puis espagnole dont la toison est épaisse et dont la laine est très fine.
- 2Textile naturel. Laine fine, ondulée et longue issue de la tonte des moutons de race mérinos.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mérinos appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…], les moutons sont l’objet de toute la sollicitude des cultivateurs, et l’on y voit de grands troupeaux de mérinos, remarquables par leur bonne conformation et l’abondance et la finesse de leurs toisons qui sont livrées aux fabriques de Reims et de Rethel.
De beaux nuages semblables à des mérinos blancs voyageaient avec lenteur. Le soleil brillait très haut ; l’heure était éclatante et douce.
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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