médiums
\me.djɔm\
The verdict
“médiums” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #40,880. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,880
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de médium.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mediums · médiums · French
médiums · rank #40,880 · 11 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,880
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mutualiser
Nearest frequency peer: mutualiser (-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 « médiums »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- muguet
muguet
59,124 corpus weight
- muscade
muscade
59,123 corpus weight
- mutualiser
mutualiser
59,122 corpus weight
- médiums
médiums
59,121 corpus weight
- méfiante
méfiante
59,120 corpus weight
- méridionaux
méridionaux
59,119 corpus weight
What this shows « médiums » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | médiums |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \me.djɔm\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #40,880 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « médiums »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around médiums (IPA \me.djɔm\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #40,880 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de médium.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for médiums, with forms such as "mdéiums", "mediums", and "mmédiums". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "médias", "medium", "Médicis", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is médiums, spelled M-É-D-I-U-M-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de médium.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how médiums appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et ce qu’il y a de certain, c’est que l’Esprit que nous venons de voir chez les idolâtres pythoniser la statue, la matière inerte et l’animal, c’est-à-dire les médiums de pierre, de bois ou de chair vive, communique à chacun d’eux une partie de ses propres facultés, sa vie, son intelligence, sa science et son mouvement au sein de l’air, où il règne en pri…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mdéiums
- mediums
- mmédiums
- méddiums
- médimus
- médiumms
- médiumss
- médiusm
- méduims
- méidums
- émdiums
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of médiums - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "médiums", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).