Mertens
\meʁ.tɛns\
The verdict
“Mertens” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,481. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,481
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom donné à la personne (une par État membre) habilitée à préparer, entrer et prendre des notes lors des réunions du Coreper I (au niveau des vice-représentants permanents) visant à préparer les ré...
Corpus desk
Index FR-mertens · Mertens · French
Mertens · rank #32,481 · 11 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,481
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH memories
Nearest frequency peer: memories (-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 « Mertens »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Marwan
Marwan
67,523 corpus weight
- marécages
marécages
67,522 corpus weight
- memories
memories
67,521 corpus weight
- Mertens
Mertens
67,520 corpus weight
- Midwest
Midwest
67,519 corpus weight
- Minerve
Minerve
67,517 corpus weight
What this shows « Mertens » 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 | Mertens |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \meʁ.tɛns\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #32,481 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Mertens »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Mertens (IPA \meʁ.tɛns\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #32,481 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom donné à la personne (une par État membre) habilitée à préparer, entrer et prendre des notes lors des réunions du Coreper I (au niveau des vice-représentants permanents) visant à préparer les ré...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Mertens, with forms such as "emrtens", "meretns", and "merrtens". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "mortes", "mettes", "mettent", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Mertens, spelled M-E-R-T-E-N-S.
Definition
- 1Nom donné à la personne (une par État membre) habilitée à préparer, entrer et prendre des notes lors des réunions du Coreper I (au niveau des vice-représentants permanents) visant à préparer les réunions du Conseil européen.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emrtens
- meretns
- merrtens
- mertenns
- mertenss
- mertesn
- mertnes
- merttens
- metrens
- mmertens
- mretens
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Mertens - 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "Mertens"?
What does "Mertens" mean?
What words are commonly confused with "Mertens"?
How do you pronounce "Mertens"?
What language does "Mertens" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Mertens", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).