med
\mɛd\
The verdict
“med” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #14,733) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #14,733
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Médical.
Corpus desk
Index FR-med · med · French
med · rank #14,733 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,733
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH matérielles
Nearest frequency peer: matérielles (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « med »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- mason
mason
85,271 corpus weight
- matos
matos
85,270 corpus weight
- matérielles
matérielles
85,269 corpus weight
- med
med
85,268 corpus weight
- mentent
mentent
85,267 corpus weight
- mercenaires
mercenaires
85,266 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « med » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | med |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \mɛd\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #14,733 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « med »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for med is neighbouring look-alikes ("mm", "mi", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced \mɛd\. Frequency #14,733 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Gloss: "Médical.".
med doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mm", "mi", "MR", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is med, spelled M-E-D.
Definition
- 1Médical.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).