médaille
[me.daj]
The verdict
“médaille” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gedenkmünze, Medaille
Corpus desk
Index DE-medaille · médaille · German
médaille · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 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 | médaille |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [me.daj] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „médaille“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
médaille is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [me.daj]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Gedenkmünze, Medaille".
Zero misspellings are on record for médaille in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is médaille, spelled M-É-D-A-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Gedenkmünze, Medaille
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.