médoc

\me.dɔk\

/\me.dɔk\/ noun

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

corpus weight

What this shows « médoc » 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).

médoc vs modo
60% similar
médoc vs MOOC
0% similar
médoc vs melo
40% similar

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

Key facts for médoc
PropertyValue
Headwordmédoc
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\me.dɔk\
Letters5
Frequency rank#22,342
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs15
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « médoc »

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

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « mythiques » (#22,341), « ménagers » (#22,343), « Mylène » (#22,340). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « médoc » est au #22,342. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    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 bourgeois et crus artisans.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Une bouteille de médoc.
  2. 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.

mdéoc2medoc1mmédoc1médco2méddoc1médocc1méodc2émdoc2
Edit distance from "médoc"

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 "médoc"?
"médoc" is spelled M-É-D-O-C. The IPA pronunciation is \me.dɔk\.
What does "médoc" mean?
As a noun, "médoc" means: 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...
What words are commonly confused with "médoc"?
"médoc" is commonly confused with "modo", "MOOC", "melo". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "médoc"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "médoc" is \me.dɔk\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "médoc" come from?
"médoc" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "médoc", not the corpus desk frequency band.

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).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list