merlot
\mɛʁ.lo\
The verdict
“merlot” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #35,153. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,153
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cépage donnant des raisins sphériques d'un noir bleuté, cultivé entre autre dans le Bordelais, et dont le nom officiel international est merlot noir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-merlot · merlot · French
merlot · rank #35,153 · 9 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,153
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH menaçants
Nearest frequency peer: menaçants (-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 « merlot »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Mauro
Mauro
64,851 corpus weight
- menaçants
menaçants
64,849 corpus weight
- merlot
merlot
64,848 corpus weight
- mesurable
mesurable
64,847 corpus weight
- Methode
Methode
64,846 corpus weight
- metteurs
metteurs
64,845 corpus weight
What this shows « merlot » 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 | merlot |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɛʁ.lo\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #35,153 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « merlot »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around merlot (IPA \mɛʁ.lo\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #35,153 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for merlot, with forms such as "emrlot", "melrot", and "merllot". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "Mermoz", "Millot", "melo", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is merlot, spelled M-E-R-L-O-T.
Definition
- 1Cépage donnant des raisins sphériques d'un noir bleuté, cultivé entre autre dans le Bordelais, et dont le nom officiel international est merlot noir.
- 2Jeune merle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how merlot appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les vins issus des cépages merlot, cabernet-franc et cabernet-sauvignon sont puissants, colorés, riches en sève et en parfums.
On cultive la vigne depuis la fin du IIIᵉ siècle dans l’île d'Oléron et ses vins, sous l’indication géographique protégée Vins de Pays charentais-île d’Oléron, sont élaborés à partir de sauvignon, colombard, chardonnay, cabernet ou merlot.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emrlot
- melrot
- merllot
- merlott
- merlto
- merolt
- merrlot
- mmerlot
- mrelot
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of merlot - 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).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).