mille mercis
\mil mɛʁ.si\
The verdict
“mille mercis” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Grand merci ; merci beaucoup ; merci bien ; merci mille fois.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mille-mercis · mille mercis · French
mille mercis · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mille mercis |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | \mil mɛʁ.si\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
mille mercis is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as aninterjection, transcribed \mil mɛʁ.si\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Grand merci ; merci beaucoup ; merci bien ; merci mille fois.".
mille mercis doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is mille mercis, spelled M-I-L-L-E- -M-E-R-C-I-S.
Definition
- 1Grand merci ; merci beaucoup ; merci bien ; merci mille fois.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mille mercis appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mille mercis pour le vin de Bordeaux. Que n'est-il ici ! On m'a réduit à ce vin seul.
Chère Isabelle, chère Ghislaine, mille mercis de m'avoir fait une nouvelle fois confiance dans l'écriture de ce livre... Chère Marie, mille mercis pour votre vigilance, vos précieux conseils et votre sympathie...
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.