méchante
\me.ʃɑ̃t\
The verdict
“méchante” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,047. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,047
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de méchant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mechante · méchante · French
méchante · rank #9,047 · 13 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,047
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mystérieuse
Nearest frequency peer: mystérieuse (-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 « méchante »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- meurtrier
meurtrier
90,958 corpus weight
- modéré
modéré
90,957 corpus weight
- mystérieuse
mystérieuse
90,955 corpus weight
- méchante
méchante
90,954 corpus weight
- optimiste
optimiste
90,952 corpus weight
- oscars
oscars
90,951 corpus weight
What this shows « méchante » 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 | méchante |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \me.ʃɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #9,047 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « méchante »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around méchante (IPA \me.ʃɑ̃t\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #9,047 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de méchant.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for méchante, with forms such as "mcéhante", "mechante", and "mméchante". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "méthane", "méchants", "méfiante", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is méchante, spelled M-É-C-H-A-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de méchant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how méchante appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La porte ouverte, l’air afflua, l’exilé fut sauvé ; puis, quand Lisbeth l’eut couché comme un malade, qu’il fut endormi, elle put reconnaître les causes de suicide dans le dénûment absolu des deux chambres de cette mansarde où il n’existait qu’une méchante table, le lit de sangle et deux chaises.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mcéhante
- mechante
- mméchante
- mécahnte
- mécchante
- méchanet
- méchannte
- méchantte
- méchatne
- méchhante
- méchnate
- méhcante
- émchante
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of méchante - 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 "méchante", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).