medic
\ˈmɛ.dɪk\
The verdict
“medic” is uncommon French (frequency #77,703 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,703
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Médecin, docteur (États Unis : combat medic).
Corpus desk
Index FR-medic · medic · French
medic · rank #77,703 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,703
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH membership
Nearest frequency peer: membership (+2 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 « medic »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Mauges
Mauges
22,304 corpus weight
- mayennais
mayennais
22,303 corpus weight
- Mayflower
Mayflower
22,302 corpus weight
- MCD
MCD
22,301 corpus weight
- medic
medic
22,298 corpus weight
- membership
membership
22,296 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « medic » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | medic |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈmɛ.dɪk\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #77,703 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « medic » en français
Rare enough to double-check
medic is uncommon French at frequency #77,703 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈmɛ.dɪk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Médecin, docteur (États Unis : combat medic).".
No generated misspelling entries exist for medic in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is medic, spelled M-E-D-I-C.
Definition
- 1Médecin, docteur (États Unis : combat medic).
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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