Médée
\me.de\
The verdict
“Médée” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #41,913. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #41,913
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fille d’Éétès, roi de Colchide.
Corpus desk
Index FR-medee · Médée · French
Médée · rank #41,913 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,913
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH médiatisés
Nearest frequency peer: médiatisés (-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 « Médée »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- multimédias
multimédias
58,091 corpus weight
- médiatisés
médiatisés
58,089 corpus weight
- Médée
Médée
58,088 corpus weight
- météore
météore
58,087 corpus weight
- Nagui
Nagui
58,086 corpus weight
- nanny
nanny
58,085 corpus weight
What this shows « Médée » 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 | Médée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \me.de\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #41,913 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Médée »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Médée (IPA \me.de\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #41,913 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Fille d’Éétès, roi de Colchide.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Médée, with forms such as "mdéée", "medee", and "mmédée". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Mère", "mode", "mené", 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Médée, spelled M-É-D-É-E.
Definition
- 1Fille d’Éétès, roi de Colchide.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Médée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ainsi, nous sommes partis d’une réécriture de l’un des mythes fondateurs de la civilisation occidentale — celui des Argonautes, qui se poursuit dans le mythe de Médée — pour mettre à jour la façon dont la dramaturgie du triptyque Rivage à l’abandon, Matériau-Médée et Paysage avec Argonautes vise explicitement à déconstruire ce mythe, à le démythifier, le…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mdéée
- medee
- mmédée
- méddée
- médeé
- mééde
- émdée
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Médée - 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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).