médical

\me.di.kal\

/\me.di.kal\/ adj

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The verdict

“médical” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,413. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#3,413
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
10
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ce qui a trait à la médecine ou à la santé.

Corpus desk

Index FR-medical · médical · French

médical · rank #3,413 · 11 variants · 10 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #3,413
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH monaco

Nearest frequency peer: monaco (-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 « médical »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « médical » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

médical vs médina
71% similar
médical vs musical
71% similar
médical vs Médicis
57% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for médical
PropertyValue
Headwordmédical
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\me.di.kal\
Letters7
Frequency rank#3,413
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs10
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « médical »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.médicalse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « monaco » (#3,412), « métiers » (#3,414), « Maurice » (#3,411). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « médical » est au #3,413. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around médical (IPA \me.di.kal\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #3,413 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for médical, with forms such as "mdéical", "medical", and "mmédical". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "médina", "musical", "Médicis", 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, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is médical, spelled M-É-D-I-C-A-L.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ce qui a trait à la médecine ou à la santé.
  2. 2
    Qui est propre à guérir ; médicinal.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how médical appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. L'importance d’Hippocrate et du Corpus hippocratique ne saurait être surestimée car l’œuvre du Maître de Cos fut objet d'enseignement médical jusqu'au milieu du XIX^(ème) siècle avant de devenir objet d'histoire.
  2. Parmi les traitements préventifs figure le traitement hormonal de la ménopause (THM), qui garde un intérêt en prévention primaire (avant fracture) pour atténuer la perte osseuse après la ménopause, mais prescrit au cas par cas, à la plus faible dose efficace et sur la durée la plus courte possible, sous stricte surveillance médicale.

This word in other languages

medical(English)médico(Español)medizinisch(Deutsch)médico(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • mdéical
  • medical
  • mmédical
  • médcial
  • méddical
  • médiacl
  • médicall
  • médiccal
  • médicla
  • méidcal
  • émdical

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of médical - 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.

mdéical2medical1mmédical1médcial2méddical1médiacl2médicall1médiccal1
Edit distance from "médical"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "médical"?
"médical" is spelled M-É-D-I-C-A-L. The IPA pronunciation is \me.di.kal\.
What does "médical" mean?
As an adjective, "médical" means: Ce qui a trait à la médecine ou à la santé.
What words are commonly confused with "médical"?
"médical" is commonly confused with "médina", "musical", "Médicis". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "médical"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "médical" is \me.di.kal\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "médical" come from?
"médical" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "médical", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

métiers#3,414Maurice#3,411dépasse#3,401déchets#3,400

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

logiciel11 variantsamoureuse11 variantsaspects11 variantseffectuer11 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list