merisier
\mə.ʁi.zje\
The verdict
“merisier” is uncommon French (frequency #83,157 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,157
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Arbre forestier de la famille des rosacées.
Corpus desk
Index FR-merisier · merisier · French
merisier · rank #83,157 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,157
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mercatique
Nearest frequency peer: mercatique (-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 « merisier »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- meli
meli
16,848 corpus weight
- mentionnera
mentionnera
16,846 corpus weight
- mercatique
mercatique
16,845 corpus weight
- merisier
merisier
16,844 corpus weight
- meures
meures
16,840 corpus weight
- Mickiewicz
Mickiewicz
16,839 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « merisier » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | merisier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mə.ʁi.zje\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #83,157 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « merisier » en français
Rare enough to double-check
merisier is uncommon French at frequency #83,157 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mə.ʁi.zje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for merisier, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is merisier, spelled M-E-R-I-S-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Arbre forestier de la famille des rosacées.
- 2Bois de cet arbre.
- 3Bouleau à sombre écorce d’Amérique du Nord (Betula alleghaniensis) ; bouleau jaune ou bouleau merisier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how merisier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le reste de l’ameublement se composait de six chaises en bois de merisier.
Pipe en merisier.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).