merles
\mɛʁl\
The verdict
“merles” is uncommon French (frequency #58,087 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,087
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de merle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-merles · merles · French
merles · rank #58,087 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,087
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH melrose
Nearest frequency peer: melrose (-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 « merles »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- marry
marry
41,918 corpus weight
- matérialisa…
matérialisation
41,917 corpus weight
- Meer
Meer
41,916 corpus weight
- melrose
melrose
41,915 corpus weight
- merles
merles
41,914 corpus weight
- Milet
Milet
41,912 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « merles » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | merles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \mɛʁl\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #58,087 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « merles » en français
Rare enough to double-check
merles is uncommon French at frequency #58,087 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \mɛʁl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de merle.".
Zero misspellings are on record for merles in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is merles, spelled M-E-R-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de merle.
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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