merle
\mɛʁl\
The verdict
“merle” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,940. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,940
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Type de coloration de pelage chez le chien. Une robe merle est sombre avec des taches claires peu distinctes qui peuvent être associées à d’autres motifs comme certaines dilutions (couleurs foie) o...
Corpus desk
Index FR-merle · merle · French
merle · rank #22,940 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,940
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mein
Nearest frequency peer: mein (-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 « merle »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Maud
Maud
77,063 corpus weight
- mein
mein
77,062 corpus weight
- merle
merle
77,061 corpus weight
- meure
meure
77,060 corpus weight
- meurtrières
meurtrières
77,059 corpus weight
- ministériels
ministériels
77,058 corpus weight
What this shows « merle » 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 | merle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \mɛʁl\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #22,940 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « merle »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around merle (IPA \mɛʁl\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #22,940 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Type de coloration de pelage chez le chien. Une robe merle est sombre avec des taches claires peu distinctes qui peuvent être associées à d’autres motifs comme certaines dilutions (couleurs foie) o...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for merle, with forms such as "emrle", "melre", and "merel". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mle", "more", "mers", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is merle, spelled M-E-R-L-E.
Definition
- 1Type de coloration de pelage chez le chien. Une robe merle est sombre avec des taches claires peu distinctes qui peuvent être associées à d’autres motifs comme certaines dilutions (couleurs foie) ou une couleur bringée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how merle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les yeux vairons sont fréquents chez les chiens merles. La robe merle se rapproche de la robe pie overo des chevaux.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emrle
- melre
- merel
- merlle
- merrle
- mmerle
- mrele
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of merle - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).