meursault
\møʁ.so\
The verdict
“meursault” is uncommon French (frequency #54,104 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,104
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vin produit sur une partie de la commune de Meursault, en Côte-d’Or.
Corpus desk
Index FR-meursault · meursault · French
meursault · rank #54,104 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,104
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mettions
Nearest frequency peer: mettions (-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 « meursault »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mesquinerie
mesquinerie
45,900 corpus weight
- mettions
mettions
45,898 corpus weight
- meursault
meursault
45,897 corpus weight
- miche
miche
45,896 corpus weight
- millionième
millionième
45,895 corpus weight
- Minerva
Minerva
45,894 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « meursault » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | meursault |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \møʁ.so\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #54,104 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « meursault » en français
Rare enough to double-check
meursault is uncommon French at frequency #54,104 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \møʁ.so\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Vin produit sur une partie de la commune de Meursault, en Côte-d’Or.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for meursault, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is meursault, spelled M-E-U-R-S-A-U-L-T.
Definition
- 1Vin produit sur une partie de la commune de Meursault, en Côte-d’Or.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how meursault appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Comme beaucoup d’Annamites, le Jaune était natif du Puy-de-Dôme et préférait les tripoux d’Auvergne au canard laqué. Il raffolait également des fruits de mer et le meursault qui les escortait enchanta son palais
Rien que le mot d'humanisme me donnait légèrement envie de vomir, mais c'était peut-être les pâtés chauds, j'avais abusé ; je repris un verre de meursault pour faire passer
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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