médicament

\me.di.ka.mɑ̃\

/\me.di.ka.mɑ̃\/ noun

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The verdict

“médicament” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,896. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#5,896
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords
16
tracked misspellings
2
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Substance ou composition possédant des propriétés curatives ou préventives, destinées à guérir, à soulager ou à prévenir des maladies humaines ou animales.

Corpus desk

Index FR-medicament · médicament · French

médicament · rank #5,896 · 16 variants · 2 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #5,896
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 16 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH médailles

Nearest frequency peer: médailles (-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 « médicament »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « médicament » 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).

médicament vs médicaments
91% similar
médicament vs médicalement
83% similar

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

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)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « médicament »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).médicamentse place ici:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « médailles » (#5,895), « Na » (#5,897), « nommer » (#5,898). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « médicament » est au #5,896. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 16 spelling variants around médicament (IPA \me.di.ka.mɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,896 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "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 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "médicaments", "médicalement", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is médicament, spelled M-É-D-I-C-A-M-E-N-T.

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.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Le sucre était connu des anciens qui ne l'employaient qu'en très-petite quantité et comme médicament ; il y a 200 ans à peine, il se vendait seulement chez les pharmaciens, à un prix très-élevé.
  2. Les produits de contraste sont des médicaments de développement récent.

Synonyms

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This word in other languages

medicine(English)medicamento(Español)Medikament(Deutsch)medicamento(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • mdéicament
  • medicament
  • mmédicament
  • médciament
  • méddicament
  • médiacment
  • médicaemnt
  • médicamennt
  • médicamentt
  • médicametn
  • médicamment
  • médicamnet
  • médiccament
  • médicmaent
  • méidcament
  • émdicament

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of médicament - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

mdéicament2medicament1mmédicament1médciament2méddicament1médiacment2médicaemnt2médicamennt1
Edit distance from "médicament"

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 "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'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 "médicament", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

particules#5,902juridiques#5,884inventaire#5,878définitive#5,861

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).

magnifiques16 variantshonnêtement16 variantsressemblent16 variantsexpositions16 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list