méritées

\me.ʁi.te\

/\me.ʁi.te\/ verb

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The verdict

“méritées” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #48,674. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#48,674
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords
12
tracked misspellings
10
confusable pairs

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

Corpus desk

Index FR-meritees · méritées · French

méritées · rank #48,674 · 12 variants · 10 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #48,674
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
  • VAR-MID 12 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH méridiens

Nearest frequency peer: méridiens (-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 « méritées »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « méritées » 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).

méritées vs mériter
75% similar
méritées vs méritez
75% similar
méritées vs mérités
88% similar

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

Key facts for méritées
PropertyValue
Headwordméritées
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\me.ʁi.te\
Letters8
Frequency rank#48,674
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs10
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « méritées »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.méritéesse place ici:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « méridiens » (#48,673), « Méry » (#48,675), « muettes » (#48,672). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « méritées » est au #48,674. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around méritées (IPA \me.ʁi.te\), averb. Corpus frequency is #48,674 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Participe passé féminin pluriel de mériter.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for méritées, with forms such as "meritees", "mméritées", and "mréitées". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "mériter", "méritez", "mérités", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 méritées, spelled M-É-R-I-T-É-E-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Participe passé féminin pluriel de mériter.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • meritees
  • mméritées
  • mréitées
  • méirtées
  • mériteés
  • mérittées
  • méritéess
  • méritése
  • mériétes
  • mérritées
  • mértiées
  • émritées

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

meritees2mméritées1mréitées2méirtées2mériteés2mérittées1méritéess1méritése2
Edit distance from "méritées"

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 "méritées"?
"méritées" is spelled M-É-R-I-T-É-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \me.ʁi.te\.
What does "méritées" mean?
As a verb, "méritées" means: Participe passé féminin pluriel de mériter.
What words are commonly confused with "méritées"?
"méritées" 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 "méritées"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "méritées" 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 "méritées" come from?
"méritées" 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 "méritées", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

nacelles#48,678narquois#48,681masquent#48,659offrirai#48,693

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).

Montereau12 variantsnazionale12 variantsmalmener12 variantslombardo12 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list