medal
\ˈmɛd.əl\
The verdict
“medal” is uncommon French (frequency #69,234 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,234
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Médaille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-medal · medal · French
medal · rank #69,234 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,234
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mendiante
Nearest frequency peer: mendiante (+2 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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « medal »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Mauléon
Mauléon
30,772 corpus weight
- Mauriciens
Mauriciens
30,771 corpus weight
- medal
medal
30,767 corpus weight
- mendiante
mendiante
30,765 corpus weight
- minisérie
minisérie
30,762 corpus weight
- minéralisat…
minéralisation
30,761 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « medal » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | medal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈmɛd.əl\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #69,234 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « medal » en français
Rare enough to double-check
medal is uncommon French at frequency #69,234 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈmɛd.əl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Médaille.".
No misspelling variants are generated for medal in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 medal, spelled M-E-D-A-L.
Definition
- 1Médaille.
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.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "medal"?
What does "medal" mean?
How do you pronounce "medal"?
What language does "medal" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "medal", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).