mécène
\me.sɛn\
The verdict
“mécène” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #26,807. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,807
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 16
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui encourage par ses libéralités les sciences, les lettres et les arts.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mecene · mécène · French
mécène · rank #26,807 · 9 variants · 16 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,807
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH médicalement
Nearest frequency peer: médicalement (+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 « mécène »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- mouture
mouture
73,198 corpus weight
- Murdoch
Murdoch
73,197 corpus weight
- mus
mus
73,196 corpus weight
- mécène
mécène
73,194 corpus weight
- médicalement
médicalement
73,193 corpus weight
- nestor
nestor
73,191 corpus weight
What this shows « mécène » 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 | mécène |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \me.sɛn\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #26,807 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « mécène »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around mécène (IPA \me.sɛn\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #26,807 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for mécène, with forms such as "mcéène", "mecene", and "mmécène". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 16 confusable-pair relationships, "mené", "menée", "mêlée", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 mécène, spelled M-É-C-È-N-E.
Definition
- 1Celui qui encourage par ses libéralités les sciences, les lettres et les arts.
- 2Personne physique ou morale qui apporte un soutien matériel, sans contrepartie directe de la part du bénéficiaire, à une œuvre ou à une personne pour l’exercice d’activités présentant un intérêt général.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mécène appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour installer ce musée, il faudrait trouver un mécène.
Ce riche amateur est le mécène des artistes.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mcéène
- mecene
- mmécène
- méccène
- mécnèe
- mécèen
- mécènne
- méècne
- émcène
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mécène - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "mécène", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).