médiathèque
\me.dja.tɛk\
The verdict
“médiathèque” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,422. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,422
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Établissement, généralement public, qui conserve et donne accès à différents types de médias.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mediatheque · médiathèque · French
médiathèque · rank #16,422 · 16 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #16,422
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH muraille
Nearest frequency peer: muraille (-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 « médiathèque »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- moches
moches
83,582 corpus weight
- Montauban
Montauban
83,581 corpus weight
- muraille
muraille
83,580 corpus weight
- médiathèque
médiathèque
83,579 corpus weight
- nomades
nomades
83,578 corpus weight
- nuisible
nuisible
83,576 corpus weight
What this shows « médiathèque » 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 | médiathèque |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \me.dja.tɛk\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #16,422 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « médiathèque »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around médiathèque (IPA \me.dja.tɛk\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,422 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Établissement, généralement public, qui conserve et donne accès à différents types de médias.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for médiathèque, with forms such as "mdéiathèque", "mediatheque", and "mmédiathèque". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "médiatique", 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 best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is médiathèque, spelled M-É-D-I-A-T-H-È-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Établissement, généralement public, qui conserve et donne accès à différents types de médias.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how médiathèque appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est sous la forme d’une bande dessinée de Jean-Louis Tripp que la ville de Moissy-Cramayel a choisi de faire connaître au public les nouveaux locaux de sa médiathèque.
Le samedi matin, je me lève en râlant parce que je n’ai pas envie d’aller à la médiathèque.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mdéiathèque
- mediatheque
- mmédiathèque
- médaithèque
- méddiathèque
- médiahtèque
- médiathhèque
- médiathqèue
- médiathèqeu
- médiathèqque
- médiathèuqe
- médiatthèque
- médiatèhque
- méditahèque
- méidathèque
- émdiathèque
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of médiathèque - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).