mécanismes
\me.ka.nism\
The verdict
“mécanismes” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,417. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,417
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de mécanisme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mecanismes · mécanismes · French
mécanismes · rank #6,417 · 16 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,417
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH music
Nearest frequency peer: music (-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 « mécanismes »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- mettra
mettra
93,587 corpus weight
- Morgan
Morgan
93,586 corpus weight
- music
music
93,585 corpus weight
- mécanismes
mécanismes
93,584 corpus weight
- médicaux
médicaux
93,583 corpus weight
- nier
nier
93,582 corpus weight
What this shows « mécanismes » 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 | mécanismes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \me.ka.nism\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #6,417 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « mécanismes »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around mécanismes (IPA \me.ka.nism\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,417 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de mécanisme.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for mécanismes, with forms such as "mcéanismes", "mecanismes", and "mmécanismes". 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, "mécanisme", "mécaniques", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is mécanismes, spelled M-É-C-A-N-I-S-M-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de mécanisme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mécanismes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mcéanismes
- mecanismes
- mmécanismes
- méacnismes
- mécainsmes
- mécanimses
- mécanisems
- mécanismess
- mécanismmes
- mécanismse
- mécanissmes
- mécannismes
- mécansimes
- méccanismes
- mécnaismes
- émcanismes
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mécanismes - 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.
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 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).