mécréants
\me.kʁe.ɑ̃\
The verdict
“mécréants” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #31,616. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #31,616
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de mécréant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mecreants · mécréants · French
mécréants · rank #31,616 · 15 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,616
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mythologique
Nearest frequency peer: mythologique (-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 « mécréants »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- mug
mug
68,388 corpus weight
- muscler
muscler
68,387 corpus weight
- mythologique
mythologique
68,386 corpus weight
- mécréants
mécréants
68,385 corpus weight
- méditerrané…
méditerranéennes
68,384 corpus weight
- médiévaux
médiévaux
68,383 corpus weight
What this shows « mécréants » 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 | mécréants |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \me.kʁe.ɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #31,616 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « mécréants »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around mécréants (IPA \me.kʁe.ɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #31,616 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de mécréant.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for mécréants, with forms such as "mcéréants", "mecreants", and "mmécréants". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "méchants", "mécréant", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is mécréants, spelled M-É-C-R-É-A-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de mécréant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mécréants appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Publication de la vidéo avec les chants "Yaahaalala yalalaaa alahamiralackbar" et drapeau noir en fond, où tu expliques qu'Allah a puni les koufars mécréants en transgenrisant leurs enfants.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mcéréants
- mecreants
- mmécréants
- méccréants
- mécraénts
- mécrréants
- mécréannts
- mécréanst
- mécréantss
- mécréantts
- mécréatns
- mécrénats
- mécérants
- mércéants
- émcréants
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mécréants - 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 (15 here; floor ≥5).