mendicité

\mɑ̃.di.si.te\

/\mɑ̃.di.si.te\/ noun

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The verdict

“mendicité” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #34,184. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#34,184
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords
14
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - État d’indigence qui amène à mendier.

Corpus desk

Index FR-mendicite · mendicité · French

mendicité · rank #34,184 · 14 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-MID #34,184
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 14 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH matériellement

Nearest frequency peer: matériellement (-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 « mendicité »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « mendicité » 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).

mendicité vs medicine
67% similar

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

Key facts for mendicité
PropertyValue
Headwordmendicité
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\mɑ̃.di.si.te\
Letters9
Frequency rank#34,184
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « mendicité »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).mendicitése 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 « matériellement » (#34,183), « mendès » (#34,185), « masculinité » (#34,181). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « mendicité » est au #34,184. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 14 spelling variants around mendicité (IPA \mɑ̃.di.si.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #34,184 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for mendicité, with forms such as "emndicité", "mednicité", and "mendciité". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "medicine", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is mendicité, spelled M-E-N-D-I-C-I-T-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    État d’indigence qui amène à mendier.
  2. 2
    Fait de mendier.
  3. 3
    Les mendiants pris collectivement.
  4. 4
    Nature d'une chose qui mérite de la commisération.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. N’est-il pas de la plus grande importance de s’occuper le plus tôt qu’il sera possible d’extirper la mendicité, en faisant l’usage des moyens indiqués dans plusieurs mémoires intéressants, qui depuis dix ans ont traité cette matière à fond ?
  2. La mendicité est soumise, en Belgique, à un arbitraire adminis­tratif que l'on peut comparer à celui de la police des mœurs; on sait que cette police, malgré d'innombrables réclamations, continue à être presque souveraine en France.

Synonyms

mendiannerie

This word in other languages

begging(English)mendicidad(Español)mendicidade(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • emndicité
  • mednicité
  • mendciité
  • menddicité
  • mendiccité
  • mendicite
  • mendicitté
  • mendiciét
  • mendictié
  • mendiicté
  • menidcité
  • menndicité
  • mmendicité
  • mnedicité

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mendicité - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

emndicité2mednicité2mendciité2menddicité1mendiccité1mendicite1mendicitté1mendiciét2
Edit distance from "mendicité"

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 "mendicité"?
"mendicité" is spelled M-E-N-D-I-C-I-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \mɑ̃.di.si.te\.
What does "mendicité" mean?
As a noun, "mendicité" means: État d’indigence qui amène à mendier.
What words are commonly confused with "mendicité"?
"mendicité" is commonly confused with "medicine". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "mendicité"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "mendicité" is \mɑ̃.di.si.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "mendicité" come from?
"mendicité" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

lâchement#34,172mortuaire#34,202navigable#34,213nommément#34,215

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).

mexicaines14 variantsmanchettes14 variantsmédiatisée14 variantsincarnant14 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list