méditer

\me.di.te\

/\me.di.te\/ verb

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The verdict

“méditer” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,448. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#15,448
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
13
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Réfléchir sur quelque chose, l’examiner mûrement, de manière à l’approfondir.

Corpus desk

Index FR-mediter · méditer · French

méditer · rank #15,448 · 11 variants · 13 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #15,448
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH mountain

Nearest frequency peer: mountain (-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 « méditer »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « méditer » 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

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

méditer vs Meier
43% similar
méditer vs mérite
71% similar
méditer vs métier
71% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for méditer
PropertyValue
Headwordméditer
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\me.di.te\
Letters7
Frequency rank#15,448
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs13
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « méditer »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).méditerse place ici:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « mountain » (#15,447), « navy » (#15,449), « montrée » (#15,446). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « méditer » est au #15,448. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around méditer (IPA \me.di.te\), averb. Corpus frequency is #15,448 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for méditer, with forms such as "mdéiter", "mediter", and "mméditer". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 13 confusable-pair relationships, "Meier", "mérite", "métier", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is méditer, spelled M-É-D-I-T-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Réfléchir sur quelque chose, l’examiner mûrement, de manière à l’approfondir.
  2. 2
    Projeter, penser à faire une chose, réfléchir aux moyens de l’exécuter.
  3. 3
    Approfondir une pensée.
  4. 4
    Faire une méditation pieuse.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Enfin, avez-vous jamais réfléchi au sens général des mœurs anglaises ? N’est-ce pas la divinisation de la matière, un épicuréisme défini, médité, savamment appliqué ?
  2. Ces réflexions étaient sans doute partagées par mon compagnon Evans, car je l'entendais qui tenait derrière moi à mi-voix une conversation intime; lui aussi méditait probablement sur l'étrangeté du pays et la nouveauté de la situation.

This word in other languages

meditate(English)meditar(Español)erwägen(Deutsch)refletir(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • mdéiter
  • mediter
  • mméditer
  • médditer
  • médietr
  • méditerr
  • méditre
  • méditter
  • médtier
  • méidter
  • émditer

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

mdéiter2mediter1mméditer1médditer1médietr2méditerr1méditre2méditter1
Edit distance from "méditer"

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 "méditer"?
"méditer" is spelled M-É-D-I-T-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \me.di.te\.
What does "méditer" mean?
As a verb, "méditer" means: Réfléchir sur quelque chose, l’examiner mûrement, de manière à l’approfondir.
What words are commonly confused with "méditer"?
"méditer" is commonly confused with "Meier", "mérite", "métier". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "méditer"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "méditer" is \me.di.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "méditer" come from?
"méditer" 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 "méditer", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

montrée#15,446orlando#15,453miennes#15,442outrage#15,454

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

mountain11 variantsmettaient11 variantspouvions11 variantsLevallois11 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list