medium

\me.djɔm\

/\me.djɔm\/ noun

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The verdict

“medium” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #23,606. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#23,606
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
6
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Panneau de fibres à densité moyenne.

Corpus desk

Index FR-medium · medium · French

medium · rank #23,606 · 8 variants · 6 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #23,606
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH MBA

Nearest frequency peer: MBA (-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 « medium »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « medium » 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).

medium vs médiums
71% similar
medium vs media
67% similar
medium vs médias
50% similar

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

Key facts for medium
PropertyValue
Headwordmedium
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\me.djɔm\
Letters6
Frequency rank#23,606
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « medium »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).mediumse 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 « MBA » (#23,605), « maturation » (#23,604), « mentez » (#23,608). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « medium » est au #23,606. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around medium (IPA \me.djɔm\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #23,606 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Panneau de fibres à densité moyenne.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for medium, with forms such as "emdium", "mdeium", and "meddium". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "médiums", "media", "médias", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

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 medium, spelled M-E-D-I-U-M.

Definition

  1. 1
    Panneau de fibres à densité moyenne.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Le medium est un matériau composite de fibre de bois réalisé à base de bois de feuillus ou de résineux.

This word in other languages

MDF(English)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • emdium
  • mdeium
  • meddium
  • medimu
  • mediumm
  • meduim
  • meidum
  • mmedium

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of medium - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

emdium2mdeium2meddium1medimu2mediumm1meduim2meidum2mmedium1
Edit distance from "medium"

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 "medium"?
"medium" is spelled M-E-D-I-U-M. The IPA pronunciation is \me.djɔm\.
What does "medium" mean?
As a noun, "medium" means: Panneau de fibres à densité moyenne.
What words are commonly confused with "medium"?
"medium" is commonly confused with "médiums", "media", "médias". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "medium"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "medium" is \me.djɔm\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "medium" come from?
"medium" 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 "medium", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

mentez#23,608montra#23,615médocs#23,621influe#23,583

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

fâche8 variantsfrôle8 variantsdéçoit8 variantssauvez8 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list