médecine

\med.sin\

/\med.sin\/ noun

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The verdict

“médecine” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,002. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#2,002
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords
12
tracked misspellings
6
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Science des maladies et art de les guérir.

Corpus desk

Index FR-medecine · médecine · French

médecine · rank #2,002 · 12 variants · 6 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #2,002
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
  • VAR-MID 12 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH montagne

Nearest frequency peer: montagne (-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 « médecine »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « médecine » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

médecine vs Médine
63% similar
médecine vs médecins
88% similar
médecine vs medicine
75% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for médecine
PropertyValue
Headwordmédecine
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\med.sin\
Letters8
Frequency rank#2,002
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « médecine »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).médecinese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « montagne » (#2,001), « net » (#2,003), « mandat » (#2,000). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « médecine » est au #2,002. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around médecine (IPA \med.sin\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #2,002 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for médecine, with forms such as "mdéecine", "medecine", and "mmédecine". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "Médine", "médecins", "medicine", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is médecine, spelled M-É-D-E-C-I-N-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Science des maladies et art de les guérir.
  2. 2
    Ensemble des sciences médicales.
  3. 3
    Système médical.
  4. 4
    Remède, sous forme liquide ou solide qu’on prend pour se purger.
  5. 5
    Les études médicales.
  6. 6
    Chose qui apporte du réconfort, du soulagement.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how médecine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. [À Quimper], la médecine est exercée par les sœurs blanches, qui n’ont pas fait d’études, mais qui sont d’une bonté angélique. Elles guérissent pour rien, quand par hasard elles guérissent. On ne paye que les médicaments. Les médecins patentés vont tous mourir de faim grâce à elles. C’est bien fait : des incrédules !
  2. Sa culture était pluriraciale, puisqu’une grande partie de sa littérature philosophique est l'œuvre de chrétiens et de juifs, et que ses traités de médecine et de mathématiques sont celle de Persans et d’Indiens.

This word in other languages

medicine(English)medicina(Español)Medizin(Deutsch)medicina(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • mdéecine
  • medecine
  • mmédecine
  • médceine
  • méddecine
  • médeccine
  • médecien
  • médecinne
  • médecnie
  • médeicne
  • méedcine
  • émdecine

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of médecine - 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.

mdéecine2medecine1mmédecine1médceine2méddecine1médeccine1médecien2médecinne1
Edit distance from "médecine"

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 "médecine"?
"médecine" is spelled M-É-D-E-C-I-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is \med.sin\.
What does "médecine" mean?
As a noun, "médecine" means: Science des maladies et art de les guérir.
What words are commonly confused with "médecine"?
"médecine" is commonly confused with "Médine", "médecins", "medicine". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "médecine"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "médecine" is \med.sin\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "médecine" come from?
"médecine" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "médecine", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

montagne#2,001division#1,994Toulouse#2,020amoureux#2,022

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).

nourriture12 variantsdemandes12 variantsespagnol12 variantsmeilleures12 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list