médiathèques
\me.dja.tɛk\
The verdict
“médiathèques” is uncommon French (frequency #59,474 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,474
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de médiathèque.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mediatheques · médiathèques · French
médiathèques · rank #59,474 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,474
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH méandre
Nearest frequency peer: méandre (-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 « médiathèques »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Murdock
Murdock
40,532 corpus weight
- mutual
mutual
40,531 corpus weight
- méandre
méandre
40,528 corpus weight
- médiathèques
médiathèques
40,527 corpus weight
- Nadja
Nadja
40,525 corpus weight
- naîtront
naîtront
40,523 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « médiathèques » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | médiathèques |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \me.dja.tɛk\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #59,474 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « médiathèques » en français
Rare enough to double-check
médiathèques is uncommon French at frequency #59,474 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \me.dja.tɛk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de médiathèque.".
médiathèques has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is médiathèques, spelled M-É-D-I-A-T-H-È-Q-U-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de médiathèque.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how médiathèques appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les médiathèques, vecteur essentiel de l’accès à la lecture et à la culture sous toutes ses formes, constituent une priorité pour les pouvoirs publics.
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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