Merville
[mɛʁ.vil]
The verdict
“Merville” is uncommon French (frequency #63,171 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,171
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-merville · Merville · French
Merville · rank #63,171 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,171
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mehr
Nearest frequency peer: mehr (-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 « Merville »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- MCU
MCU
36,833 corpus weight
- MDM
MDM
36,832 corpus weight
- mehr
mehr
36,831 corpus weight
- Merville
Merville
36,830 corpus weight
- miels
miels
36,829 corpus weight
- Mikkelsen
Mikkelsen
36,828 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Merville » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Merville |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [mɛʁ.vil] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #63,171 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Merville » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Merville is uncommon French at frequency #63,171 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed [mɛʁ.vil]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Merville has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Merville, spelled M-E-R-V-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
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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