Mermoz
\mɛʁ.mɔz\
The verdict
“Mermoz” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #41,405. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #41,405
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille français.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mermoz · Mermoz · French
Mermoz · rank #41,405 · 9 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,405
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mercantile
Nearest frequency peer: mercantile (-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 « Mermoz »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- means
means
58,598 corpus weight
- mercantile
mercantile
58,597 corpus weight
- Mermoz
Mermoz
58,596 corpus weight
- military
military
58,595 corpus weight
- milligrammes
milligrammes
58,594 corpus weight
- mimiques
mimiques
58,593 corpus weight
What this shows « Mermoz » 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 | Mermoz |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \mɛʁ.mɔz\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #41,405 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Mermoz »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Mermoz (IPA \mɛʁ.mɔz\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #41,405 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille français.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Mermoz, with forms such as "emrmoz", "memroz", and "mermmoz". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "memo", "merlot", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Mermoz, spelled M-E-R-M-O-Z.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille français.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Mermoz appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le samedi 29 septembre 1925, vers 5 heures, la famille Mermoz, de Messigny, était éveillée par les aboiements inusités de son chien qui était attaché dans une cabane située dans un pré attenant à l’habitation.
L’invasion de la Belgique et du nord de la France par les Allemands disperse la famille Mermoz. Les grands-parents maternels de Jean choisissent la prudence et quittent précipitamment Mainbressy pour se réfugier à Aurillac, […].
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emrmoz
- memroz
- mermmoz
- mermozz
- mermzo
- meromz
- merrmoz
- mmermoz
- mremoz
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Mermoz - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Mermoz", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).