méandre
\me.ɑ̃dʁ\
The verdict
“méandre” is uncommon French (frequency #59,473 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,473
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sinuosité d’un fleuve, d’une rivière, par allusion au fleuve de Phrygie qui portait ce nom.
Corpus desk
Index FR-meandre · méandre · French
méandre · rank #59,473 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,473
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH médiathèques
Nearest frequency peer: médiathèques (+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 « méandre »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Murcie
Murcie
40,533 corpus weight
- Murdock
Murdock
40,532 corpus weight
- mutual
mutual
40,531 corpus weight
- méandre
méandre
40,528 corpus weight
- médiathèques
médiathèques
40,527 corpus weight
- Nadja
Nadja
40,525 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « méandre » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | méandre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \me.ɑ̃dʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #59,473 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « méandre » en français
Rare enough to double-check
méandre is uncommon French at frequency #59,473 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \me.ɑ̃dʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for méandre in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is méandre, spelled M-É-A-N-D-R-E.
Definition
- 1Sinuosité d’un fleuve, d’une rivière, par allusion au fleuve de Phrygie qui portait ce nom.
- 2Chose tortueuse.
- 3Configuration dans un plan formée par deux courbes planes simples se coupant transversalement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how méandre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il pouvait être cinq heures de l'après-midi. — Le soleil à son déclin répandait des traînées de poudre d'or sur les méandres prochains de la Seine et noyait au sein d'une buée lumineuse les horizons lointains.
De grands ravins y déroulent des méandres grisâtres, semblables au lit d'un fleuve desséché.
This word in other languages
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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