médiocrité

\me.djɔ.kʁi.te\

/\me.djɔ.kʁi.te\/ noun

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The verdict

“médiocrité” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,680. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#16,680
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords
15
tracked misspellings

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - État ou qualité de ce qui est médiocre (moyen, peu important, peu digne d'être remarqué).

Corpus desk

Index FR-mediocrite · médiocrité · French

médiocrité · rank #16,680 · 15 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #16,680
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 15 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH montait

Nearest frequency peer: montait (-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 « médiocrité »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « médiocrité » 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
Key facts for médiocrité
PropertyValue
Headwordmédiocrité
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\me.djɔ.kʁi.te\
Letters10
Frequency rank#16,680
Misspellings tracked15
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « médiocrité »

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

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « montait » (#16,679), « ménagères » (#16,681), « montages » (#16,678). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « médiocrité » est au #16,680. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 15 spelling variants around médiocrité (IPA \me.djɔ.kʁi.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,680 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for médiocrité, with forms such as "mdéiocrité", "mediocrite", and "mmédiocrité". 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. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is médiocrité, spelled M-É-D-I-O-C-R-I-T-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    État ou qualité de ce qui est médiocre (moyen, peu important, peu digne d'être remarqué).
  2. 2
    Situation sociale, état de fortune intermédiaire entre la richesse et la pauvreté, entre la haute société et une condition petite-bourgeoise ou populaire. Situation sociale peu brillante.
  3. 3
    Manque d'intelligence, de talent, de qualités personnelles. Insuffisance du côté de l’esprit ou du mérite.
  4. 4
    De faible valeur, de mauvaise qualité, franchement mauvais. En ce sens, souvent employé comme euphémisme.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. La médiocrité de sa fortune, de son esprit.
  2. Un mot les caractérise, la médiocrité ; mais c’est une médiocrité voulue, systématique. Ils font exprès d’être médiocres. « Mariage de la mort et du vide, » disait Michelet de l’alliance des jésuites et des sulpiciens.

This word in other languages

mediocrity(English)mediocridad(Español)Mediokrität(Deutsch)mediocridade(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • mdéiocrité
  • mediocrite
  • mmédiocrité
  • méddiocrité
  • médicorité
  • médioccrité
  • médiocirté
  • médiocritté
  • médiocriét
  • médiocrrité
  • médiocrtié
  • médiorcité
  • médoicrité
  • méidocrité
  • émdiocrité

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

mdéiocrité2mediocrite2mmédiocrité1méddiocrité1médicorité2médioccrité1médiocirté2médiocritté1
Edit distance from "médiocrité"

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 "médiocrité"?
"médiocrité" is spelled M-É-D-I-O-C-R-I-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \me.djɔ.kʁi.te\.
What does "médiocrité" mean?
As a noun, "médiocrité" means: État ou qualité de ce qui est médiocre (moyen, peu important, peu digne d'être remarqué).
What are common misspellings of "médiocrité"?
Common misspellings include "mdéiocrité", "mediocrite", "mmédiocrité", "méddiocrité", "médicorité". The correct spelling is "médiocrité".
How do you pronounce "médiocrité"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "médiocrité" is \me.djɔ.kʁi.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "médiocrité" come from?
"médiocrité" 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 "médiocrité", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

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

minuscules#16,675librairies#16,667laisserait#16,666poussières#16,704

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).

inquiètent15 variantsprophètes15 variantsrecommandée15 variantsremplissage15 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list