Medaillon
[medalˈjɔ̃ː]
The verdict
“Medaillon” has 11 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #38,280. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,280
- frequency rank, German
- 3,571
- “M” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Schmuckstück in Form einer Plakette oder Scheibe, das oft als Hals- oder Armbandanhänger getragen wird und auf einer Seite ein eingraviertes oder geprägtes Bild oder Symbol trägt
Corpus desk
Index DE-medaillon · Medaillon · German
Medaillon · rank #38,280 · 11 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #38,280
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,571
- PHOTO-FINISH mathematischer
Nearest frequency peer: mathematischer (-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.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „Medaillon“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- massenhaften
massenhaften
61,724 corpus weight
- masturbiert
masturbiert
61,723 corpus weight
- mathematisc…
mathematischer
61,722 corpus weight
- Medaillon
Medaillon
61,721 corpus weight
- Medizinern
Medizinern
61,720 corpus weight
- Meike
Meike
61,719 corpus weight
What this shows „Medaillon“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
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 | Medaillon |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [medalˈjɔ̃ː] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #38,280 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Medaillon“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Medaillon (IPA [medalˈjɔ̃ː]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #38,280 among 3,571 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Medaillon, with forms such as "emdaillon", "mdeaillon", and "meadillon". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Medaillen", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Medaillon, spelled M-E-D-A-I-L-L-O-N.
Definition
- 1Schmuckstück in Form einer Plakette oder Scheibe, das oft als Hals- oder Armbandanhänger getragen wird und auf einer Seite ein eingraviertes oder geprägtes Bild oder Symbol trägt
- 2kleine Scheibe Fleisch in kreisrunder Form
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Medaillon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sie trägt ein Medaillon mit dem Bild ihres Mannes.
„Er findet ein Medaillon, auf dem eine Menschenfrau abgebildet ist, verliebt sich in das Bild.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emdaillon
- mdeaillon
- meadillon
- medaillno
- medaillonn
- medailoln
- medailon
- medalilon
- meddaillon
- mediallon
- mmedaillon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Medaillon - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Medaillon", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).