mercredi
\mɛʁ.kʁə.di\
The verdict
“mercredi” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,484. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,484
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième jour de la semaine. Suit le mardi et précède le jeudi
Corpus desk
Index FR-mercredi · mercredi · French
mercredi · rank #1,484 · 12 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-COMMON #1,484
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH maisons
Nearest frequency peer: maisons (-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 « mercredi »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- intérêts
intérêts
98,520 corpus weight
- lycée
lycée
98,519 corpus weight
- maisons
maisons
98,518 corpus weight
- mercredi
mercredi
98,517 corpus weight
- milliards
milliards
98,516 corpus weight
- mourir
mourir
98,515 corpus weight
What this shows « mercredi » 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 | mercredi |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɛʁ.kʁə.di\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #1,484 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « mercredi »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around mercredi (IPA \mɛʁ.kʁə.di\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,484 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième jour de la semaine. Suit le mardi et précède le jeudi".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for mercredi, with forms such as "emrcredi", "mecrredi", and "merccredi". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "mercredis", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is mercredi, spelled M-E-R-C-R-E-D-I.
Definition
- 1Troisième jour de la semaine. Suit le mardi et précède le jeudi
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mercredi appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Solar Project aux mercredis saujonnais
Hier matin, vous n'êtes pas allé marcher avec le club, comme tous les mercredis. Comme par hasard, c'est le jour où votre voisin se fait assassiner. Il insista lourdement sur ce dernier mot.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emrcredi
- mecrredi
- merccredi
- mercerdi
- mercrdei
- mercreddi
- mercreid
- mercrredi
- merrcedi
- merrcredi
- mmercredi
- mrecredi
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mercredi - 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 "mercredi", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).