midnight

\ˈmɪd.naɪt\

/\ˈmɪd.naɪt\/ noun

The verdict

“midnight” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,251. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#28,251
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords
13
tracked misspellings

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (Moment de la journée) Minuit.

Corpus desk

Index FR-midnight · midnight · French

midnight · rank #28,251 · 13 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #28,251
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH militer

Nearest frequency peer: militer (+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 « midnight »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « midnight » 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
Key facts for midnight
PropertyValue
Headwordmidnight
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ˈmɪd.naɪt\
Letters8
Frequency rank#28,251
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « midnight »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.midnightse 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 « militer » (#28,252), « mathématiquement » (#28,249), « misères » (#28,253). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « midnight » est au #28,251. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around midnight (IPA \ˈmɪd.naɪt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #28,251 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "(Moment de la journée) Minuit.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for midnight, with forms such as "imdnight", "mdinight", and "middnight". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

No explicit etymology string is stored 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 midnight, spelled M-I-D-N-I-G-H-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    (Moment de la journée) Minuit.

Antonyms

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • imdnight
  • mdinight
  • middnight
  • midinght
  • midngiht
  • midnigght
  • midnighht
  • midnightt
  • midnigth
  • midnihgt
  • midnnight
  • mindight
  • mmidnight

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

imdnight2mdinight2middnight1midinght2midngiht2midnigght1midnighht1midnightt1
Edit distance from "midnight"

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 "midnight"?
"midnight" is spelled M-I-D-N-I-G-H-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ˈmɪd.naɪt\.
What does "midnight" mean?
As a noun, "midnight" means: (Moment de la journée) Minuit.
What are common misspellings of "midnight"?
Common misspellings include "imdnight", "mdinight", "middnight", "midinght", "midngiht". The correct spelling is "midnight".
How do you pronounce "midnight"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "midnight" is \ˈmɪd.naɪt\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "midnight" come from?
"midnight" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "midnight", 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 (13 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list