médiocrité
\me.djɔ.kʁi.te\
The verdict
“médiocrité” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #16,680 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #16,680
- frequency rank, French
- 10
- letters
- 15
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - État ou qualité de ce qui est médiocre (moyen, peu important, peu digne d'être remarqué).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | médiocrité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \me.djɔ.kʁi.te\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #16,680 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “médiocrité” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for médiocrité is 10 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \me.djɔ.kʁi.te\. Corpus data places it at rank #16,680 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
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
- 1État ou qualité de ce qui est médiocre (moyen, peu important, peu digne d'être remarqué).
- 2Situation 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.
- 3Manque d'intelligence, de talent, de qualités personnelles. Insuffisance du côté de l’esprit ou du mérite.
- 4De faible valeur, de mauvaise qualité, franchement mauvais. En ce sens, souvent employé comme euphémisme.
This word in other languages
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.
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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Using “médiocrité”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is M-É-D-I-O-C-R-I-T-É - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \me.djɔ.kʁi.te\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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.