médicament

/\me.di.ka.mɑ̃\/ noun

Letters

10 characters

Frequency Rank

#5,896

in French word usage

Misspellings

16

tracked variants

Confusables

2

similar word pairs

médicament is aFrenchnoun. It means: Substance ou composition possédant des propriétés curatives ou préventives, destinées à guérir, à soulager ou à prévenir des maladies humaines ou animales. Pronounced \me.di.ka.mɑ̃\. It ranks #5,896 in French word frequency. Often confused with médicaments and médicalement.

Key facts for médicament
PropertyValue
Headwordmédicament
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\me.di.ka.mɑ̃\
Letters10
Frequency rank#5,896
Misspellings tracked16
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of médicament in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for médicament is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \me.di.ka.mɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,896 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Substance ou composition possédant des propriétés curatives ou préventives, destinées à guérir, à soulager ou à prévenir des maladies humaines ou animales.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for médicament, with forms such as "mdéicament", "medicament", and "mmédicament". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "médicaments", "médicalement", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is médicament, spelled M-É-D-I-C-A-M-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Substance ou composition possédant des propriétés curatives ou préventives, destinées à guérir, à soulager ou à prévenir des maladies humaines ou animales.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: mdéicament,medicament,mmédicament,médciament,méddicament,médiacment,médicaemnt,médicamennt,médicamentt,médicametn,médicamment,médicamnet,médiccament,médicmaent,méidcament,émdicament

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for médicament

Misspelling Variants of "médicament"

mdéicament10medicament10mmédicament11médciament10méddicament11médiacment10médicaemnt10médicamennt11
Misspelling Variants of "médicament"

Frequency rank: #5,896 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "médicament"?
"médicament" is spelled M-É-D-I-C-A-M-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \me.di.ka.mɑ̃\.
What does "médicament" mean?
As a noun, "médicament" means: Substance ou composition possédant des propriétés curatives ou préventives, destinées à guérir, à soulager ou à prévenir des maladies humaines ou animales.
What words are commonly confused with "médicament"?
"médicament" is commonly confused with "médicaments", "médicalement". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "médicament"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "médicament" is \me.di.ka.mɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "médicament" come from?
"médicament" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.