mermaid
\ˈmɝ.ˌmeɪd\
The verdict
“mermaid” is uncommon French (frequency #98,245 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,245
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sirène (mi-femme mi-poisson).
Corpus desk
Index FR-mermaid · mermaid · French
mermaid · rank #98,245 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,245
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH merengues
Nearest frequency peer: merengues (-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 « mermaid »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- meow
meow
1,758 corpus weight
- merengues
merengues
1,757 corpus weight
- mermaid
mermaid
1,756 corpus weight
- miaulements
miaulements
1,754 corpus weight
- miners
miners
1,753 corpus weight
- miniaturisé
miniaturisé
1,752 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mermaid » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mermaid |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈmɝ.ˌmeɪd\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #98,245 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mermaid » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mermaid is uncommon French at frequency #98,245 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈmɝ.ˌmeɪd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Sirène (mi-femme mi-poisson).".
Zero misspellings are on record for mermaid in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is mermaid, spelled M-E-R-M-A-I-D.
Definition
- 1Sirène (mi-femme mi-poisson).
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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