Mexican
The verdict
“Mexican” is uncommon French (frequency #90,935 among 202,672 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,935
- frequency rank, French
- 202,672
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Mexicain (relatif au Mexique).
| 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) |
Where “Mexican” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Mexican is uncommon French at frequency #90,935 among 202,672 “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).
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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Using “Mexican”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is M-E-X-I-C-A-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.