médoc
\me.dɔk\
The verdict
“médoc” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,342. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,342
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bordeaux renommé pour sa couleur rubis, son bouquet, sa finesse et son moelleux, provenant du Bas et Haut-Médoc, classé en grands crus (Château-Lafitte, Château-Latour, Château-Margaux), crus bourg...
Corpus desk
Index FR-medoc · médoc · French
médoc · rank #22,342 · 8 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,342
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mythiques
Nearest frequency peer: mythiques (-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 « médoc »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- moss
moss
77,662 corpus weight
- Mylène
Mylène
77,661 corpus weight
- mythiques
mythiques
77,660 corpus weight
- médoc
médoc
77,659 corpus weight
- ménagers
ménagers
77,658 corpus weight
- mômes
mômes
77,657 corpus weight
What this shows « médoc » 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 | médoc |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \me.dɔk\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #22,342 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « médoc »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around médoc (IPA \me.dɔk\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #22,342 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Bordeaux renommé pour sa couleur rubis, son bouquet, sa finesse et son moelleux, provenant du Bas et Haut-Médoc, classé en grands crus (Château-Lafitte, Château-Latour, Château-Margaux), crus bourg...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for médoc, with forms such as "mdéoc", "medoc", and "mmédoc". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "modo", "MOOC", "melo", 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 easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is médoc, spelled M-É-D-O-C.
Definition
- 1Bordeaux renommé pour sa couleur rubis, son bouquet, sa finesse et son moelleux, provenant du Bas et Haut-Médoc, classé en grands crus (Château-Lafitte, Château-Latour, Château-Margaux), crus bourgeois et crus artisans.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how médoc appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une bouteille de médoc.
Trois paires d’amis se seront régalés du gigot à l’eau et du rognon de Pontoise, arrosés d’orléans et de médoc bien limpides.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mdéoc
- medoc
- mmédoc
- médco
- méddoc
- médocc
- méodc
- émdoc
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of médoc - 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.
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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).