médisances
\me.di.zɑ̃s\
The verdict
“médisances” is uncommon French (frequency #97,192 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,192
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de médisance.
Corpus desk
Index FR-medisances · médisances · French
médisances · rank #97,192 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,192
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mystifier
Nearest frequency peer: mystifier (-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 « médisances »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mutagène
mutagène
2,812 corpus weight
- Mutter
Mutter
2,811 corpus weight
- mystifier
mystifier
2,810 corpus weight
- médisances
médisances
2,809 corpus weight
- mégalopoles
mégalopoles
2,808 corpus weight
- mélanomes
mélanomes
2,806 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « médisances » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | médisances |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \me.di.zɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #97,192 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « médisances » en français
Rare enough to double-check
médisances is uncommon French at frequency #97,192 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \me.di.zɑ̃s\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de médisance.".
Zero misspellings are on record for médisances in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 médisances, spelled M-É-D-I-S-A-N-C-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de médisance.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how médisances appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Aujourd’hui, vous suivez votre voie, sans vous occuper des médisances.
Vous êtes liguée avec les autres, Ellen ! répondit-elle, je ne veux pas écouter vos médisances. Quelle malveillance il faut que vous ayez pour désirer me convaincre qu’il n’y a pas de bonheur dans ce monde !
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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