mécanique
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,277
in French word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
mécanique is anFrenchadj. It means: Relatif aux machines, aux mécanismes. Pronounced \me.ka.nik\. It ranks #3,277 in French word frequency. Often confused with mécanisme and mécaniques.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mécanique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \me.ka.nik\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #3,277 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for mécanique is 9 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \me.ka.nik\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,277 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for mécanique, with forms such as "mcéanique", "mecanique", and "mmécanique". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "mécanisme", "mécaniques", 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is mécanique, spelled M-É-C-A-N-I-Q-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Relatif aux machines, aux mécanismes.
- 2Qui est réalisé par une machine, un automatisme.
- 3Qui est machinal, rendu familier par l’habitude.
- 4Qui est une conséquence prévisible, attendue.
- 5Qui agit par le mouvement et non par un effet chimique.
- 6Qui a principalement besoin de l’action de la main.
- 7Relatif aux lois qui régissent le mouvement des corps.
- 8Qualifiait les courbes, dites aussi transcendantes, qui ne peuvent pas être exprimées par des équations algébriques.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: mcéanique,mecanique,mmécanique,méacnique,mécainque,mécaniqeu,mécaniqque,mécaniuqe,mécannique,mécanqiue,méccanique,mécnaique,émcanique
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for mécanique
Misspelling Variants of "mécanique"
Frequency rank: #3,277 in French
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Nearby French words
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