messidor
\me.si.dɔʁ\
The verdict
“messidor” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #47,459. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #47,459
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dixième mois du calendrier républicain, qui commençait le 19 ou le 20 juin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-messidor · messidor · French
messidor · rank #47,459 · 10 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #47,459
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH menuisiers
Nearest frequency peer: menuisiers (-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 « messidor »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- member
member
52,547 corpus weight
- mentionnez
mentionnez
52,545 corpus weight
- mentors
mentors
52,544 corpus weight
- menuisiers
menuisiers
52,543 corpus weight
- messidor
messidor
52,542 corpus weight
- meublés
meublés
52,540 corpus weight
What this shows « messidor » 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 | messidor |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \me.si.dɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #47,459 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « messidor »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around messidor (IPA \me.si.dɔʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #47,459 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for messidor, with forms such as "emssidor", "mesidor", and "mesisdor". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "messier", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is messidor, spelled M-E-S-S-I-D-O-R.
Definition
- 1Dixième mois du calendrier républicain, qui commençait le 19 ou le 20 juin.
- 2Se dit d’une lourde imitation des styles antiques, en vogue sous le Directoire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how messidor appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Beaucoup de gens sont encore de cet avis en Espagne, où le goût messidor fleurit dans toute sa pureté ….
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emssidor
- mesidor
- mesisdor
- messdior
- messiddor
- messidorr
- messidro
- messiodr
- mmessidor
- msesidor
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of messidor - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "messidor", 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 (10 here; floor ≥5).