médaillé
\me.da.je\
The verdict
“médaillé” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,793. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,793
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a reçu une ou des médailles.
Corpus desk
Index FR-medaille · médaillé · French
médaillé · rank #20,793 · 10 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,793
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH médaillon
Nearest frequency peer: médaillon (-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 « médaillé »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- monologue
monologue
79,212 corpus weight
- montraient
montraient
79,211 corpus weight
- Mossoul
Mossoul
79,210 corpus weight
- médaillon
médaillon
79,209 corpus weight
- médaillé
médaillé
79,208 corpus weight
- nationalisa…
nationalisation
79,205 corpus weight
What this shows « médaillé » 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 | médaillé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \me.da.je\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #20,793 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « médaillé »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around médaillé (IPA \me.da.je\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #20,793 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui a reçu une ou des médailles.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for médaillé, with forms such as "mdéaillé", "medaille", and "mmédaillé". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "muraille", "Melville", "médailles", 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 explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is médaillé, spelled M-É-D-A-I-L-L-É.
Definition
- 1Qui a reçu une ou des médailles.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how médaillé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un artiste médaillé.
On y retrouve, par l’accident de l’histoire, ce qui peut le mieux incarner l’uniforme du nouveau siècle : non le torse affreusement médaillé des dictateurs du tiers monde, mais cette simplicité qui veut incarner la proximité et ramener la fonction du chef à celle du chef de famille, du civil qui, aux grandes heures de sa nation, prend les armes après les…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mdéaillé
- medaille
- mmédaillé
- méadillé
- médailé
- médailél
- médalilé
- méddaillé
- médiallé
- émdaillé
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of médaillé - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).