Merkel
\mɛʁ.kɛl\
The verdict
“Merkel” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,193. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,193
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille allemand.
Corpus desk
Index FR-merkel · Merkel · French
Merkel · rank #10,193 · 9 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,193
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Mathilde
Nearest frequency peer: Mathilde (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « Merkel »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- manu
manu
89,811 corpus weight
- Mathilde
Mathilde
89,809 corpus weight
- Merkel
Merkel
89,808 corpus weight
- metro
metro
89,807 corpus weight
- militante
militante
89,806 corpus weight
- mineure
mineure
89,805 corpus weight
What this shows « Merkel » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Merkel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \mɛʁ.kɛl\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #10,193 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Merkel »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Merkel (IPA \mɛʁ.kɛl\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #10,193 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille allemand.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Merkel, with forms such as "emrkel", "mekrel", and "merekl". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 14 confusable-pair relationships, "Morel", "merle", "Meryl", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 Merkel, spelled M-E-R-K-E-L.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille allemand.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Merkel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle avait 11 ans, en 2011, quand l’ex-chancelière Angela Merkel avait promis la fermeture de toutes les centrales nucléaires allemandes en 2022.
Reste que cette politique, qui faisait le pari d’allier la fermeté des sanctions au maintien du dialogue, a vite perdu toute crédibilité avec la décision prise par Berlin, en 2015, de construire un deuxième gazoduc, Nord Stream 2, acheminant du gaz russe en Allemagne via la mer Baltique. Une conséquence indirecte du choix fait par Angela Merkel, au lendem…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emrkel
- mekrel
- merekl
- merkell
- merkkel
- merkle
- merrkel
- mmerkel
- mrekel
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Merkel - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).