médicaux
\me.di.ko\
The verdict
“médicaux” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,418. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,418
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de médical.
Corpus desk
Index FR-medicaux · médicaux · French
médicaux · rank #6,418 · 12 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,418
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mécanismes
Nearest frequency peer: mécanismes (-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 « médicaux »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Morgan
Morgan
93,586 corpus weight
- music
music
93,585 corpus weight
- mécanismes
mécanismes
93,584 corpus weight
- médicaux
médicaux
93,583 corpus weight
- nier
nier
93,582 corpus weight
- obstacles
obstacles
93,581 corpus weight
What this shows « médicaux » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | médicaux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \me.di.ko\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #6,418 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « médicaux »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around médicaux (IPA \me.di.ko\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #6,418 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de médical.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for médicaux, with forms such as "mdéicaux", "medicaux", and "mmédicaux". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "musicaux", "médiévaux", "médical", and more, 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. The correct French form is médicaux, spelled M-É-D-I-C-A-U-X.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de médical.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how médicaux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À la campagne, les maisons très éloignées les unes des autres, et en général rudimentairement installées, rendent difficiles et souvent inefficaces les soins médicaux.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mdéicaux
- medicaux
- mmédicaux
- médciaux
- méddicaux
- médiacux
- médicauxx
- médicaxu
- médiccaux
- médicuax
- méidcaux
- émdicaux
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of médicaux - 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.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).