Mékong
\me.kɔ̃ŋ\
The verdict
“Mékong” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #38,437. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,437
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Grand fleuve d’Asie du Sud-Est.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mekong · Mékong · French
Mékong · rank #38,437 · 10 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,437
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Mégane
Nearest frequency peer: Mégane (-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 « Mékong »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- musculature
musculature
61,568 corpus weight
- Mégane
Mégane
61,565 corpus weight
- Mékong
Mékong
61,564 corpus weight
- métallurgiq…
métallurgique
61,563 corpus weight
- métastases
métastases
61,562 corpus weight
- nagent
nagent
61,561 corpus weight
What this shows « Mékong » 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 | Mékong |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \me.kɔ̃ŋ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #38,437 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Mékong »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Mékong (IPA \me.kɔ̃ŋ\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #38,437 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Grand fleuve d’Asie du Sud-Est.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Mékong, with forms such as "mekong", "mkéong", and "mmékong". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "meng", "menons", "making", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Mékong, spelled M-É-K-O-N-G.
Definition
- 1Grand fleuve d’Asie du Sud-Est.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Mékong appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
«Les connexions de trafiquants entre les syndicats actifs dans le Mékong, notamment en Thaïlande, et Taïwan sont anciennes et fortes», a expliqué M. Douglas à l’AFP.
Un pêcheur cambodgien a capturé dans le Mékong le plus gros poisson d’eau douce jamais enregistré d’après des scientifiques, une raie géante de 300 kilos (661 livres).
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mekong
- mkéong
- mmékong
- mékkong
- méknog
- mékogn
- mékongg
- mékonng
- méokng
- émkong
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Mékong - 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 "Mékong", 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 (10 here; floor ≥5).