méconnues
\me.kɔ.ny\
The verdict
“méconnues” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #40,387. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,387
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de méconnue.
Corpus desk
Index FR-meconnues · méconnues · French
méconnues · rank #40,387 · 12 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,387
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mystery
Nearest frequency peer: mystery (-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 « méconnues »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- musica
musica
59,617 corpus weight
- mutiler
mutiler
59,616 corpus weight
- mystery
mystery
59,615 corpus weight
- méconnues
méconnues
59,614 corpus weight
- méfiants
méfiants
59,613 corpus weight
- mégot
mégot
59,612 corpus weight
What this shows « méconnues » 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 | méconnues |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \me.kɔ.ny\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #40,387 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « méconnues »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around méconnues (IPA \me.kɔ.ny\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #40,387 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de méconnue.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for méconnues, with forms such as "mcéonnues", "meconnues", and "mméconnues". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "méconnus", "méconnu", "méconnue", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is méconnues, spelled M-É-C-O-N-N-U-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de méconnue.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how méconnues appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Qu’elles se flattent, elles les inconnues ou les méconnues, de voir ce grand jour se lever sur elles, les invisibles et les inutiles, de se sentir à un point de vue supérieur, mises en évidence et en valeur, pourquoi pas ?
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mcéonnues
- meconnues
- mméconnues
- mécconnues
- mécnonues
- méconneus
- méconnuess
- méconnuse
- méconues
- méconunes
- méocnnues
- émconnues
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of méconnues - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).