mardi
\maʁ.di\
The verdict
“mardi” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,568. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,568
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième jour de la semaine, qui suit le lundi et précède le mercredi.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mardi · mardi · French
mardi · rank #1,568 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,568
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH malheureuseme…
Nearest frequency peer: malheureusement (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « mardi »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- exploitation
exploitation
98,436 corpus weight
- fonctions
fonctions
98,435 corpus weight
- malheureuse…
malheureusement
98,434 corpus weight
- mardi
mardi
98,433 corpus weight
- offrir
offrir
98,432 corpus weight
- prennent
prennent
98,431 corpus weight
What this shows « mardi » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | mardi |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \maʁ.di\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #1,568 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « mardi »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around mardi (IPA \maʁ.di\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,568 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Deuxième jour de la semaine, qui suit le lundi et précède le mercredi.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for mardi, with forms such as "amrdi", "madri", and "marddi". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mars", "midi", "mari", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is mardi, spelled M-A-R-D-I.
Definition
- 1Deuxième jour de la semaine, qui suit le lundi et précède le mercredi.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mardi appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Avant-hier, j’ai fait un grand voyage. Je suis parti à trente kilomètres de Vézelay – où je passe le plus clair de mon temps cet été – dans la ville de Corbigny (Nièvre). On m’avait dit que tous les deuxième mardi du mois se tenait une foire aux bestiaux.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amrdi
- madri
- marddi
- marid
- marrdi
- mmardi
- mradi
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mardi - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).