Mecque
\mɛk\
The verdict
“Mecque” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,415. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,415
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Centre de rayonnement d'un art ou d'une science.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mecque · Mecque · French
Mecque · rank #16,415 · 8 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,415
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mass
Nearest frequency peer: mass (-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 « Mecque »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- marquise
marquise
83,589 corpus weight
- marées
marées
83,588 corpus weight
- mass
mass
83,587 corpus weight
- Mecque
Mecque
83,586 corpus weight
- Melbourne
Melbourne
83,585 corpus weight
- mettais
mettais
83,584 corpus weight
What this shows « Mecque » 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 | Mecque |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \mɛk\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #16,415 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Mecque »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Mecque (IPA \mɛk\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #16,415 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Mecque, with forms such as "emcque", "mceque", and "meccque". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "moqué", "Mexique", "mecs", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Mecque, spelled M-E-C-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Centre de rayonnement d'un art ou d'une science.
- 2Centre des plus réputés d'une activité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Mecque appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Arles est la Mecque des archéologues français : c'est la cité antique par excellence.
Le physiologiste hollandais Jordan écrivait que les travaux de Pavlov ont fait de Léningrad la Mecque des physiologistes du monde entier.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emcque
- mceque
- meccque
- mecqeu
- mecqque
- mecuqe
- meqcue
- mmecque
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Mecque - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "Mecque", 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 (8 here; floor ≥5).