mendès
\mɛ̃.dɛs\
The verdict
“mendès” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #34,185. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,185
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Verre de lait consommé dans un bistro
Corpus desk
Index FR-mendes · mendès · French
mendès · rank #34,185 · 10 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,185
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mendicité
Nearest frequency peer: mendicité (-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 « mendès »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- masculinité
masculinité
65,820 corpus weight
- matériellem…
matériellement
65,818 corpus weight
- mendicité
mendicité
65,817 corpus weight
- mendès
mendès
65,816 corpus weight
- metropolitan
metropolitan
65,814 corpus weight
- meurtri
meurtri
65,813 corpus weight
What this shows « mendès » 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 | mendès |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɛ̃.dɛs\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #34,185 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « mendès »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around mendès (IPA \mɛ̃.dɛs\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #34,185 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Verre de lait consommé dans un bistro".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for mendès, with forms such as "emndès", "mednès", and "menddès". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mené", "mens", "monde", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 mendès, spelled M-E-N-D-È-S.
Definition
- 1Verre de lait consommé dans un bistro
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emndès
- mednès
- menddès
- mendes
- mendsè
- mendèss
- menndès
- menèds
- mmendès
- mnedès
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mendès - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "mendès", 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).