Medea
\meˈdeːa\
The verdict
“Medea” is uncommon French (frequency #98,237 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,237
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Médée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-medea · Medea · French
Medea · rank #98,237 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,237
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Meije
Nearest frequency peer: Meije (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Medea »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mauviettes
mauviettes
1,769 corpus weight
- mañana
mañana
1,768 corpus weight
- Mbemba
Mbemba
1,767 corpus weight
- Medea
Medea
1,764 corpus weight
- Meije
Meije
1,763 corpus weight
- Meilhac
Meilhac
1,762 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Medea » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Medea |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \meˈdeːa\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #98,237 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Medea » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Medea is uncommon French at frequency #98,237 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \meˈdeːa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Médée.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Medea, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Medea, spelled M-E-D-E-A.
Definition
- 1Médée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Medea appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Medea war als Priesterin im Tempel der Hekate tätig.
Um sich an Jason zu rächen, tötet Medea ihre Kinder: diese grausige Legende deutet an, daß die Frau aus ihrer Bindung an das Kind einen furchterregenden Einfluß hätte entwickeln können.
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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