Medef
\me.dɛf\
The verdict
“Medef” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,084. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,084
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Organisation patronale représentant des entreprises françaises.
Corpus desk
Index FR-medef · Medef · French
Medef · rank #14,084 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,084
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Mauritanie
Nearest frequency peer: Mauritanie (-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 « Medef »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- malins
malins
85,920 corpus weight
- Mauritanie
Mauritanie
85,918 corpus weight
- Medef
Medef
85,917 corpus weight
- Mehdi
Mehdi
85,916 corpus weight
- Meyer
Meyer
85,915 corpus weight
- miniature
miniature
85,914 corpus weight
What this shows « Medef » 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 | Medef |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \me.dɛf\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #14,084 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Medef »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Medef (IPA \me.dɛf\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #14,084 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Organisation patronale représentant des entreprises françaises.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Medef, with forms such as "emdef", "mdeef", and "meddef". 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.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Medef, spelled M-E-D-E-F.
Definition
- 1Organisation patronale représentant des entreprises françaises.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emdef
- mdeef
- meddef
- medeff
- medfe
- meedf
- mmedef
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Medef - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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).