méritée

\me.ʁi.te\

/\me.ʁi.te\/ verb

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The verdict

“méritée” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,805. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#18,805
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
8
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé féminin singulier de mériter.

Corpus desk

Index FR-meritee · méritée · French

méritée · rank #18,805 · 10 variants · 8 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #18,805
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH mélancolique

Nearest frequency peer: mélancolique (-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 « méritée »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « méritée » 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).

méritée vs mériter
71% similar
méritée vs méritez
71% similar
méritée vs mérités
86% similar

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

Key facts for méritée
PropertyValue
Headwordméritée
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\me.ʁi.te\
Letters7
Frequency rank#18,805
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs8
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « méritée »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).méritéese 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 « mélancolique » (#18,804), « métis » (#18,806), « médiocres » (#18,803). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « méritée » est au #18,805. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around méritée (IPA \me.ʁi.te\), averb. Corpus frequency is #18,805 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Participe passé féminin singulier de mériter.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for méritée, with forms such as "meritee", "mméritée", and "mréitée". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "mériter", "méritez", "mérités", 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is méritée, spelled M-É-R-I-T-É-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Participe passé féminin singulier de mériter.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • meritee
  • mméritée
  • mréitée
  • méirtée
  • mériteé
  • mérittée
  • mériéte
  • mérritée
  • mértiée
  • émritée

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of méritée - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

meritee2mméritée1mréitée2méirtée2mériteé2mérittée1mériéte2mérritée1
Edit distance from "méritée"

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 "méritée"?
"méritée" is spelled M-É-R-I-T-É-E. The IPA pronunciation is \me.ʁi.te\.
What does "méritée" mean?
As a verb, "méritée" means: Participe passé féminin singulier de mériter.
What words are commonly confused with "méritée"?
"méritée" is commonly confused with "mériter", "méritez", "mérités". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "méritée"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "méritée" is \me.ʁi.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "méritée" come from?
"méritée" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

nombril#18,808notoire#18,809morning#18,800offense#18,813

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

mascotte10 variantsorteils10 variantsperçues10 variantspoésies10 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list