médiale
\me.djal\
The verdict
“médiale” is uncommon French (frequency #87,867 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,867
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Consonne qui occupe le milieu d’un mot.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mediale · médiale · French
médiale · rank #87,867 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,867
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH médaillées
Nearest frequency peer: médaillées (-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 « médiale »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Musil
Musil
12,137 corpus weight
- mutantes
mutantes
12,136 corpus weight
- médaillées
médaillées
12,135 corpus weight
- médiale
médiale
12,134 corpus weight
- mélopée
mélopée
12,132 corpus weight
- môssieur
môssieur
12,131 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « médiale » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | médiale |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \me.djal\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #87,867 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « médiale » en français
Rare enough to double-check
médiale is uncommon French at frequency #87,867 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \me.djal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Consonne qui occupe le milieu d’un mot.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for médiale, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is médiale, spelled M-É-D-I-A-L-E.
Definition
- 1Consonne qui occupe le milieu d’un mot.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how médiale appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une médiale.
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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