mediocre
\ˌmiː.di.ˈəʊ.kə\
The verdict
“mediocre” is uncommon French (frequency #85,925 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,925
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Médiocre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mediocre · mediocre · French
mediocre · rank #85,925 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,925
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mecum
Nearest frequency peer: mecum (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « mediocre »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- matérialisés
matérialisés
14,081 corpus weight
- mazza
mazza
14,080 corpus weight
- mecum
mecum
14,077 corpus weight
- mediocre
mediocre
14,076 corpus weight
- memorie
memorie
14,074 corpus weight
- menottée
menottée
14,072 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mediocre » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mediocre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˌmiː.di.ˈəʊ.kə\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #85,925 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mediocre » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mediocre is uncommon French at frequency #85,925 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ˌmiː.di.ˈəʊ.kə\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Médiocre.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for mediocre, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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 mediocre, spelled M-E-D-I-O-C-R-E.
Definition
- 1Médiocre.
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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