mead
\miːd\
The verdict
“mead” is uncommon French (frequency #50,354 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,354
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hydromel.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mead · mead · French
mead · rank #50,354 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,354
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mediator
Nearest frequency peer: mediator (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « mead »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mastodonte
mastodonte
49,650 corpus weight
- matérialité
matérialité
49,649 corpus weight
- mead
mead
49,647 corpus weight
- mediator
mediator
49,646 corpus weight
- mercator
mercator
49,645 corpus weight
- merchandisi…
merchandising
49,644 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mead » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mead |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \miːd\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #50,354 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mead » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mead is uncommon French at frequency #50,354 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \miːd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
mead has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is mead, spelled M-E-A-D.
Definition
- 1Hydromel.
- 2Boisson composée de sirop de salsepareille, ou d’un autre extrait aromatique, et d’eau, et parfois chargée en gaz d’acide carbonique.
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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