médians
\me.djɑ̃\
The verdict
“médians” is uncommon French (frequency #57,449 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,449
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de médian.
Corpus desk
Index FR-medians · médians · French
médians · rank #57,449 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,449
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mâtiné
Nearest frequency peer: mâtiné (-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 « médians »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- MySQL
MySQL
42,554 corpus weight
- mâtiné
mâtiné
42,553 corpus weight
- médians
médians
42,552 corpus weight
- mégawatts
mégawatts
42,551 corpus weight
- ménélas
ménélas
42,550 corpus weight
- méthodiste
méthodiste
42,548 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « médians » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | médians |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \me.djɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #57,449 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « médians » en français
Rare enough to double-check
médians is uncommon French at frequency #57,449 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \me.djɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de médian.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for médians, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is médians, spelled M-É-D-I-A-N-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de médian.
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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