MRC
\ɛ.mɛʁ.se\
The verdict
“MRC” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #12,201) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #12,201
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Montpellier rugby club (créé en 1986, devenu le Montpellier Hérault rugby club (MHRC) en 2003, puis le Montpellier Hérault rugby (MHR) en 2009).
Corpus desk
Index FR-mrc · MRC · French
MRC · rank #12,201 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,201
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Mozart
Nearest frequency peer: Mozart (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « MRC »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- mercier
mercier
87,803 corpus weight
- miséricorde
miséricorde
87,802 corpus weight
- Mozart
Mozart
87,801 corpus weight
- MRC
MRC
87,800 corpus weight
- médiévale
médiévale
87,799 corpus weight
- méridionale
méridionale
87,798 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « MRC » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | MRC |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ɛ.mɛʁ.se\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #12,201 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « MRC »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for MRC is neighbouring look-alikes ("my", "ms", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced \ɛ.mɛʁ.se\. Frequency #12,201 among 5,038 “M” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
MRC has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "my", "ms", "Mt", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is MRC, spelled M-R-C.
Definition
- 1Montpellier rugby club (créé en 1986, devenu le Montpellier Hérault rugby club (MHRC) en 2003, puis le Montpellier Hérault rugby (MHR) en 2009).
- 2Mouvement républicain et citoyen, un parti politique français.
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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