medley
\mɛd.le\
The verdict
“medley” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #47,451. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #47,451
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Course en individuel ou en équipe où quatre différents styles de nage (papillon, dos, brasse et nage libre) sont utilisés
Corpus desk
Index FR-medley · medley · French
medley · rank #47,451 · 9 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,451
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Maël
Nearest frequency peer: Maël (-2 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 « medley »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Maura
Maura
52,554 corpus weight
- maverick
maverick
52,553 corpus weight
- Maël
Maël
52,552 corpus weight
- medley
medley
52,550 corpus weight
- Mehmet
Mehmet
52,548 corpus weight
- member
member
52,547 corpus weight
What this shows « medley » 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 | medley |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɛd.le\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #47,451 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « medley »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around medley (IPA \mɛd.le\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #47,451 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for medley, with forms such as "emdley", "mdeley", and "meddley". 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. It also participates in 13 confusable-pair relationships, "mêlé", "mêler", "mêlée", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is medley, spelled M-E-D-L-E-Y.
Definition
- 1Course en individuel ou en équipe où quatre différents styles de nage (papillon, dos, brasse et nage libre) sont utilisés
- 2Compilation de plusieurs morceaux d'un genre, d'un artiste ou d'une époque donnée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how medley appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Souvent, la musique de Zelda va être jouée aux côtés de mélodies issues d’autres jeux, pour constituer un medley enchaînant quelques pistes parfois tirées de plusieurs volets.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emdley
- mdeley
- meddley
- medely
- medleyy
- medlley
- medlye
- meldey
- mmedley
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of medley - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).