mémoires

\me.mwaʁ\

/\me.mwaʁ\/ noun

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The verdict

“mémoires” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,052. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#5,052
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords
12
tracked misspellings
3
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Récit écrit qu’une personne fait des événements auxquels elle a participé ou dont elle a été témoin.

Corpus desk

Index FR-memoires · mémoires · French

mémoires · rank #5,052 · 12 variants · 3 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #5,052
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
  • VAR-MID 12 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH musulmane

Nearest frequency peer: musulmane (-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 « mémoires »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « mémoires » 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).

mémoires vs memories
63% similar
mémoires vs membres
63% similar
mémoires vs mémoire
88% similar

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

Key facts for mémoires
PropertyValue
Headwordmémoires
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\me.mwaʁ\
Letters8
Frequency rank#5,052
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « mémoires »

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

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « musulmane » (#5,051), « observations » (#5,053), « maritimes » (#5,050). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « mémoires » est au #5,052. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around mémoires (IPA \me.mwaʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,052 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Récit écrit qu’une personne fait des événements auxquels elle a participé ou dont elle a été témoin.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for mémoires, with forms such as "memoires", "mmémoires", and "mméoires". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "memories", "membres", "mémoire", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 mémoires, spelled M-É-M-O-I-R-E-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Récit écrit qu’une personne fait des événements auxquels elle a participé ou dont elle a été témoin.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. René de Rohan, père de l'auteur des mémoires, avoit été élevé dans la religion catholique.
  2. Fouché, dans ses Mémoires, avoue que ses plans ne réussirent pas; Talleyrand fut plus heureux, il contribua grandement à la restauration des Bourbons ; […].

This word in other languages

memoirs(English)memorias(Español)Memoiren(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • memoires
  • mmémoires
  • mméoires
  • mémiores
  • mémmoires
  • mémoiers
  • mémoiress
  • mémoirres
  • mémoirse
  • mémories
  • méomires
  • émmoires

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mémoires - 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.

memoires1mmémoires1mméoires2mémiores2mémmoires1mémoiers2mémoiress1mémoirres1
Edit distance from "mémoires"

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 "mémoires"?
"mémoires" is spelled M-É-M-O-I-R-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \me.mwaʁ\.
What does "mémoires" mean?
As a noun, "mémoires" means: Récit écrit qu’une personne fait des événements auxquels elle a participé ou dont elle a été témoin.
What words are commonly confused with "mémoires"?
"mémoires" is commonly confused with "memories", "membres", "mémoire". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "mémoires"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "mémoires" is \me.mwaʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "mémoires" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).

courants12 variantsbourgeois12 variantsbouteilles12 variantsspéciaux12 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list