médian
\me.djɑ̃\
The verdict
“médian” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,004. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,004
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est placé au milieu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-median · médian · French
médian · rank #12,004 · 8 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,004
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mécontentement
Nearest frequency peer: mécontentement (-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 « médian »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- mythologie
mythologie
88,000 corpus weight
- mâchoire
mâchoire
87,999 corpus weight
- mécontentem…
mécontentement
87,998 corpus weight
- médian
médian
87,997 corpus weight
- méthodologie
méthodologie
87,996 corpus weight
- nb
nb
87,995 corpus weight
What this shows « médian » 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 | médian |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \me.djɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #12,004 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « médian »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around médian (IPA \me.djɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #12,004 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for médian, with forms such as "mdéian", "median", and "mmédian". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 14 confusable-pair relationships, "mein", "Megan", "médias", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is médian, spelled M-É-D-I-A-N.
Definition
- 1Qui est placé au milieu.
- 2Qualifie la nervure qui est au milieu de chaque feuille.
- 3Qualifie les colonnes qui sont au milieu du porche et dont l’entrecolonnement est plus large que les autres.
- 4jouer milieu de terrain
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how médian appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La courbe d’aimantation stable passe par l’origine ; c’est en quelque sorte, la courbe médiane entre les deux branches de la courbe d’hystérésis.
Désormais, il calamistrait ses cheveux noirs, ramenés vers l'arrière. Il les ordonnait avec soin : deux ailes de choucas rayonnant sur les tempes à partir d'un sillon médian.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mdéian
- median
- mmédian
- médain
- méddian
- médiann
- méidan
- émdian
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of médian - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "médian", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).