mécanisme

\me.ka.nism\

/\me.ka.nism\/ noun

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The verdict

“mécanisme” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,695. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#4,695
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords
14
tracked misspellings
2
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Structure d’un organisme naturel ou artificiel en tant que combinaison animée de ses parties.

Corpus desk

Index FR-mecanisme · mécanisme · French

mécanisme · rank #4,695 · 14 variants · 2 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #4,695
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 14 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH moyennes

Nearest frequency peer: moyennes (-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 « mécanisme »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « mécanisme » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

mécanisme vs mécanismes
90% similar
mécanisme vs mécanique
78% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for mécanisme
PropertyValue
Headwordmécanisme
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\me.ka.nism\
Letters9
Frequency rank#4,695
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « mécanisme »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).mécanismese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « moyennes » (#4,694), « occidentale » (#4,696), « monuments » (#4,693). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « mécanisme » est au #4,695. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 14 spelling variants around mécanisme (IPA \me.ka.nism\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #4,695 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for mécanisme, with forms such as "mcéanisme", "mecanisme", and "mmécanisme". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "mécanismes", "mécanique", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is mécanisme, spelled M-É-C-A-N-I-S-M-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Structure d’un organisme naturel ou artificiel en tant que combinaison animée de ses parties.
  2. 2
    Construction de combinaisons.
  3. 3
    Moteur, partie mobile et active d'un ensemble, pièces qui assurent le fonctionnement d’une machine.
  4. 4
    Structure des éléments de la parole, arrangement des mots et des phrases.
  5. 5
    Structure de la phrase musicale.
  6. 6
    Doctrine d’après laquelle tout s’explique dans l’univers par les seules propriétés mécaniques de la matière.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how mécanisme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Examinons maintenant le mécanisme (fig.97) qui fait mouvoir les parties travaillantes.
  2. L’indéninition des mécanismes sociaux perturbe, réactionnellement, la formation de la personnalité de bien des individus. Du point de vue de la fixation libidinale, L'État des monopoles ne vaut pas un clou.

This word in other languages

mechanism(English)mecanismo(Español)mechanismus(Deutsch)mecanismo(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • mcéanisme
  • mecanisme
  • mmécanisme
  • méacnisme
  • mécainsme
  • mécanimse
  • mécanisem
  • mécanismme
  • mécanissme
  • mécannisme
  • mécansime
  • méccanisme
  • mécnaisme
  • émcanisme

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mécanisme - 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.

mcéanisme2mecanisme1mmécanisme1méacnisme2mécainsme2mécanimse2mécanisem2mécanismme1
Edit distance from "mécanisme"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "mécanisme"?
"mécanisme" is spelled M-É-C-A-N-I-S-M-E. The IPA pronunciation is \me.ka.nism\.
What does "mécanisme" mean?
As a noun, "mécanisme" means: Structure d’un organisme naturel ou artificiel en tant que combinaison animée de ses parties.
What words are commonly confused with "mécanisme"?
"mécanisme" is commonly confused with "mécanismes", "mécanique". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "mécanisme"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "mécanisme" is \me.ka.nism\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "mécanisme" come from?
"mécanisme" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "mécanisme", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

monuments#4,693manifeste#4,690polémique#4,701rendement#4,706

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).

occidentale14 variantshabitation14 variantsstabilité14 variantsclientèle14 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list