merleau
\mɛʁ.lo\
The verdict
“merleau” is uncommon French (frequency #52,194 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,194
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Jeune merle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-merleau · merleau · French
merleau · rank #52,194 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,194
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH merce
Nearest frequency peer: merce (-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 « merleau »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- masquées
masquées
47,811 corpus weight
- maxillaire
maxillaire
47,810 corpus weight
- merce
merce
47,808 corpus weight
- merleau
merleau
47,807 corpus weight
- mighty
mighty
47,805 corpus weight
- milicien
milicien
47,803 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « merleau » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | merleau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɛʁ.lo\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #52,194 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « merleau » en français
Rare enough to double-check
merleau is uncommon French at frequency #52,194 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mɛʁ.lo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Jeune merle.".
merleau has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 merleau, spelled M-E-R-L-E-A-U.
Definition
- 1Jeune merle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how merleau appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il trouva au pied de l’arbre le merleau qui piaillait tout en pleurant.
La mère Mariette dit : « Cachons-nous derrière un arbre et nous verrons pourquoi les merleaux ouvrent ainsi le bec. » Nicolas et Nicolette se cachèrent et ils virent le père et la mère des merleaux apporter à manger à leurs petits.
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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