Mesrine
\mɛ.ʁin\
The verdict
“Mesrine” is uncommon French (frequency #67,697 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,697
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille, surtout connu pour Jacques Mesrine (1936-1979), gangster français.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mesrine · Mesrine · French
Mesrine · rank #67,697 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,697
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH menstruelle
Nearest frequency peer: menstruelle (-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 « Mesrine »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- MDMA
MDMA
32,308 corpus weight
- meltdown
meltdown
32,307 corpus weight
- menacerait
menacerait
32,306 corpus weight
- menstruelle
menstruelle
32,305 corpus weight
- Mesrine
Mesrine
32,304 corpus weight
- Meylan
Meylan
32,303 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Mesrine » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Mesrine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \mɛ.ʁin\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #67,697 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Mesrine » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Mesrine is uncommon French at frequency #67,697 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \mɛ.ʁin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille, surtout connu pour Jacques Mesrine (1936-1979), gangster français.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Mesrine, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Mesrine, spelled M-E-S-R-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille, surtout connu pour Jacques Mesrine (1936-1979), gangster français.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Mesrine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Comment ne pas avoir envie de jouer un homme aussi complexe et charismatique que Mesrine, s’exclame Vincent Cassel, qui se glissa dans la peau du gangster pour le diptyque de Jean-François Richet.
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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