méfait
\me.fɛ\
The verdict
“méfait” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #41,419. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #41,419
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mauvaise action.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mefait · méfait · French
méfait · rank #41,419 · 9 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,419
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH médiatrice
Nearest frequency peer: médiatrice (-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 « méfait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- mourants
mourants
58,586 corpus weight
- multilingue
multilingue
58,585 corpus weight
- médiatrice
médiatrice
58,583 corpus weight
- méfait
méfait
58,582 corpus weight
- méfient
méfient
58,581 corpus weight
- naines
naines
58,580 corpus weight
What this shows « méfait » 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 | méfait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \me.fɛ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #41,419 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « méfait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around méfait (IPA \me.fɛ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #41,419 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for méfait, with forms such as "mefait", "mféait", and "mméfait". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "menant", "mêlant", "menait", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 méfait, spelled M-É-F-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Mauvaise action.
- 2Acte criminel.
- 3Dégât, conséquence négative.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how méfait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vers 1255, le bailli de Pont-Audemer, nommé Jean de Neuvy, était sous le poids des plus graves accusations, et parmi les nombreux méfaits qui lui étaient reprochés se trouvait l’impunité d'un assassinat commis sur un homme de Bourneville.
La reconnaissance d’un méfait constituerait déjà une petite victoire pour ceux et celles qui considèrent que l’homme n’a jamais pleinement payé le prix de ses frasques. Un argument fort en faveur d’un pardon réside dans son effet présumément unificateur.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mefait
- mféait
- mméfait
- méafit
- méfaitt
- méfati
- méffait
- méfiat
- émfait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of méfait - 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 "méfait", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).