méridienne

\me.ʁi.djɛn\

/\me.ʁi.djɛn\/ noun

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The verdict

“méridienne” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #44,594. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#44,594
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords
13
tracked misspellings
2
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ligne d’intersection du plan méridien et du plan horizontal en un lieu donné.

Corpus desk

Index FR-meridienne · méridienne · French

méridienne · rank #44,594 · 13 variants · 2 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #44,594
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH mécréant

Nearest frequency peer: mécréant (-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 « méridienne »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « méridienne » 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).

méridienne vs méridiens
80% similar
méridienne vs méridien
80% similar

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

Key facts for méridienne
PropertyValue
Headwordméridienne
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\me.ʁi.djɛn\
Letters10
Frequency rank#44,594
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « méridienne »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).méridiennese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « mécréant » (#44,593), « nadir » (#44,595), « mutins » (#44,592). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « méridienne » est au #44,594. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around méridienne (IPA \me.ʁi.djɛn\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #44,594 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for méridienne, with forms such as "meridienne", "mméridienne", and "mréidienne". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "méridiens", "méridien", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is méridienne, spelled M-É-R-I-D-I-E-N-N-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ligne d’intersection du plan méridien et du plan horizontal en un lieu donné.
  2. 2
    Sieste à laquelle les habitants des pays chauds se livrent ordinairement vers l’heure du midi.
  3. 3
    Lit de repos à deux chevets de hauteur inégale, sorte de grande bergère ou de canapé, nommé aussi récamier.
  4. 4
    Cadran solaire vertical et tourné vers le sud, qui ne donne l’heure qu’autour du midi local.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Calculer une méridienne : se situer par observation au sextant du soleil à son zénith.
  2. Après une courte méridienne, il se fit donner de quoi se laver, et se frotta longtemps les deux joues en les gonflant à l’aide de la langue pour les mieux savonner.

This word in other languages

armchair(English)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • meridienne
  • mméridienne
  • mréidienne
  • méirdienne
  • mérdiienne
  • mériddienne
  • mérideinne
  • méridiene
  • méridienen
  • méridinene
  • mériidenne
  • mérridienne
  • émridienne

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

meridienne1mméridienne1mréidienne2méirdienne2mérdiienne2mériddienne1mérideinne2méridiene1
Edit distance from "méridienne"

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 "méridienne"?
"méridienne" is spelled M-É-R-I-D-I-E-N-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is \me.ʁi.djɛn\.
What does "méridienne" mean?
As a noun, "méridienne" means: Ligne d’intersection du plan méridien et du plan horizontal en un lieu donné.
What words are commonly confused with "méridienne"?
"méridienne" is commonly confused with "méridiens", "méridien". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "méridienne"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "méridienne" is \me.ʁi.djɛn\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "méridienne" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

monochrome#44,588nébuleuses#44,601pellegrini#44,621perplexité#44,625

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

mécréant13 variantsnaviguent13 variantspanoramas13 variantsMagdalena13 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list