midi

\mi.di\

/\mi.di\/ noun

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The verdict

“midi” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #847. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#847
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords
5
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Moment où le Soleil est le plus haut dans le ciel, qui partage également la durée du jour entre le soleil levant et le soleil couchant.

Corpus desk

Index FR-midi · midi · French

midi · rank #847 · 5 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-CORE #847
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 5 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH mission

Nearest frequency peer: mission (+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 « midi »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « midi » 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).

midi vs moi
50% similar
midi vs mis
50% similar
midi vs min
50% similar

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

Key facts for midi
PropertyValue
Headwordmidi
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\mi.di\
Letters4
Frequency rank#847
Misspellings tracked5
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « midi »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).midise 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 « mission » (#848), « Information » (#845), « moitié » (#849). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « midi » est au #847. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 5 spelling variants around midi (IPA \mi.di\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #847 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 8 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for midi, with forms such as "imdi", "mdii", and "middi". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "moi", "mis", "min", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 midi, spelled M-I-D-I.

Definition

  1. 1
    Moment où le Soleil est le plus haut dans le ciel, qui partage également la durée du jour entre le soleil levant et le soleil couchant.
  2. 2
    La douzième heure depuis minuit.
  3. 3
    Deuxième repas de la journée, déjeuner.
  4. 4
    Moment où le centre du soleil se trouve dans le méridien et où commence le jour astronomique.
  5. 5
    Un des quatre points cardinaux, plus couramment appelé sud.
  6. 6
    L'ensemble des régions, des pays du Sud de l'Europe.
  7. 7
    Exposition qui, étant en face du soleil à midi, reçoit toute la chaleur de ses rayons.
  8. 8
    Le milieu de la vie.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Le matin, le midi et le soir.
  2. Cette glace fondait un tantinet à midi mais regelait le soir, et, chaque matin, on commençait par la repolir avec amour.

Synonyms

sudSud

Antonyms

nordNord

This word in other languages

noon(English)mediodía(Español)Mittag(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • imdi
  • mdii
  • middi
  • miid
  • mmidi

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

imdi2mdii2middi1miid2mmidi1
Edit distance from "midi"

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 "midi"?
"midi" is spelled M-I-D-I. The IPA pronunciation is \mi.di\.
What does "midi" mean?
As a noun, "midi" means: Moment où le Soleil est le plus haut dans le ciel, qui partage également la durée du jour entre le soleil levant et le soleil couchant.
What words are commonly confused with "midi"?
"midi" is commonly confused with "moi", "mis", "min". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "midi"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "midi" is \mi.di\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "midi" come from?
"midi" 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 "midi", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

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

reçu5 variantsPaul5 variantsfini5 variantspaix5 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list