Mexican
The verdict
“Mexican” is uncommon French (frequency #90,935 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,935
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mexicain (relatif au Mexique).
Corpus desk
Index FR-mexican · Mexican · French
Mexican · rank #90,935 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,935
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH meuvent
Nearest frequency peer: meuvent (-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 « Mexican »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- meringuée
meringuée
9,069 corpus weight
- meuvent
meuvent
9,067 corpus weight
- Mexican
Mexican
9,066 corpus weight
- mice
mice
9,065 corpus weight
- microbiens
microbiens
9,064 corpus weight
- micromètre
micromètre
9,063 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Mexican » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Mexican |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #90,935 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Mexican » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Mexican is uncommon French at frequency #90,935 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Mexicain (relatif au Mexique).".
No misspelling variants are generated for Mexican in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Mexican, spelled M-E-X-I-C-A-N.
Definition
- 1Mexicain (relatif au Mexique).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Mexican appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Hippopotamuses brought to Colombia as part of Escobar's private zoo at his ranch, Hacienda Napoles, have bred so successfully that there is serious concern over their environmental impact and human safety, according to a new study by researchers at Mexican and Colombian universities.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).