méridien
\me.ʁi.djɛ̃\
The verdict
“méridien” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #24,297. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,297
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à l’heure de midi.
Corpus desk
Index FR-meridien · méridien · French
méridien · rank #24,297 · 12 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,297
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH ménagère
Nearest frequency peer: ménagère (-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 « méridien »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- mélangeant
mélangeant
75,707 corpus weight
- ménagère
ménagère
75,705 corpus weight
- méridien
méridien
75,704 corpus weight
- mêlés
mêlés
75,702 corpus weight
- narcisse
narcisse
75,701 corpus weight
- Nicki
Nicki
75,700 corpus weight
What this shows « méridien » 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 | méridien |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \me.ʁi.djɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #24,297 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « méridien »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around méridien (IPA \me.ʁi.djɛ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #24,297 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for méridien, with forms such as "meridien", "mméridien", and "mréidien". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "méridiens", "méridienne", "merdier", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is méridien, spelled M-É-R-I-D-I-E-N.
Definition
- 1Relatif à l’heure de midi.
- 2Qui a rapport aux lignes droites tirées dans l’axe Nord-Sud.
- 3Qualifie un instrument astronomique dont l’optique se meut dans l’axe Nord-Sud.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how méridien appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les petites bannières blanches viennent de grimper au sommet des minarets, annonçant l’heure méridienne de l’oûli, quand nous passons sous la voûte sombre de la grande porto de Casablanca.
Il travaillait, avec grande conscience, dans l’attente de cette heure méridienne où, sur le prétexte de se sustenter de carottes râpées, de merlan en colère et de fromage blanc, il retrouvait, amoureusement, l’hôtesse.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- meridien
- mméridien
- mréidien
- méirdien
- mérdiien
- mériddien
- méridein
- méridienn
- méridine
- mériiden
- mérridien
- émridien
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of méridien - 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
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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).