méritoire
\me.ʁi.twaʁ\
The verdict
“méritoire” is uncommon French (frequency #61,724 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,724
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui mérite l’approbation, l’estime.
Corpus desk
Index FR-meritoire · méritoire · French
méritoire · rank #61,724 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,724
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH méprisants
Nearest frequency peer: méprisants (-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 « méritoire »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- médianes
médianes
38,280 corpus weight
- mée
mée
38,279 corpus weight
- méprisants
méprisants
38,278 corpus weight
- méritoire
méritoire
38,277 corpus weight
- métamorphos…
métamorphosée
38,276 corpus weight
- Nanette
Nanette
38,274 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « méritoire » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | méritoire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \me.ʁi.twaʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #61,724 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « méritoire » en français
Rare enough to double-check
méritoire is uncommon French at frequency #61,724 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \me.ʁi.twaʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for méritoire in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is méritoire, spelled M-É-R-I-T-O-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Qui mérite l’approbation, l’estime.
- 2Qui rend Dieu miséricordieux pour le croyant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how méritoire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il se mit ensuite en apprentissage, en renouvelant les mêmes efforts, entêtement d’autant plus méritoire qu’il lui fallait un jour pour apprendre ce que d’autres savaient en une heure.
Il allait se marier sans arrière-pensée d'aucune sorte et il menait déjà une conduite exemplaire, ce qui était assez méritoire de la part d'un ancien viveur.
Antonyms
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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