memory

\mɛm.(ə.)ɹi\

/\mɛm.(ə.)ɹi\/ noun

The verdict

“memory” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #35,596. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#35,596
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
6
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mémoire.

Corpus desk

Index FR-memory · memory · French

memory · rank #35,596 · 9 variants · 6 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #35,596
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH Mayas

Nearest frequency peer: Mayas (-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 « memory »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « memory » 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).

memory vs Mory
50% similar
memory vs Méry
33% similar
memory vs merry
67% similar

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

Key facts for memory
PropertyValue
Headwordmemory
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\mɛm.(ə.)ɹi\
Letters6
Frequency rank#35,596
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « memory »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).memoryse 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 « Mayas » (#35,595), « mauves » (#35,594), « might » (#35,599). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « memory » est au #35,596. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around memory (IPA \mɛm.(ə.)ɹi\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #35,596 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for memory, with forms such as "emmory", "memmory", and "memorry". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "Mory", "Méry", "merry", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is memory, spelled M-E-M-O-R-Y.

Definition

  1. 1
    Mémoire.
  2. 2
    Souvenir.
  3. 3
    Mémoire.
  4. 4
    Mémoire vive, RAM.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. In a nutshell, an object is iterable if it is either a physically stored sequence in memory, or an object that generates one item at a time in the context of an iteration operation—a sort of "virtual" sequence.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • emmory
  • memmory
  • memorry
  • memoryy
  • memoyr
  • memroy
  • meomry
  • mmemory
  • mmeory

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

emmory2memmory1memorry1memoryy1memoyr2memroy2meomry2mmemory1
Edit distance from "memory"

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 "memory"?
"memory" is spelled M-E-M-O-R-Y. The IPA pronunciation is \mɛm.(ə.)ɹi\.
What does "memory" mean?
As a noun, "memory" means: Mémoire.
What words are commonly confused with "memory"?
"memory" is commonly confused with "Mory", "Méry", "merry". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "memory"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "memory" is \mɛm.(ə.)ɹi\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "memory" come from?
"memory" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "memory", 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).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list