meu
/ˈmjuː/
"meu" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“meu” is a moderately-common English word, ranked #48,897 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #48,897
- frequency rank, English
- 3
- letters
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Meum athamanticum, a European herb.
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 | meu |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈmjuː/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #48,897 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “meu” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for meu is 3 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈmjuː/. Corpus data places it at rank #48,897 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Meum athamanticum, a European herb.".
Zero misspellings are on record for meu in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "my", "Mr", "MS", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Latin mēum (“umbelliferous plant, Meum athamanticum”), from Ancient Greek μῆον (mêon), probably from μεῖον (meîon, “lesser”) for its small size. The English form came perhaps via Middle French meu, a word with a single isolated attestation from the 14t… The correct English form is meu, spelled M-E-U.
Definition
- 1Meum athamanticum, a European herb.
Etymology
From Latin mēum (“umbelliferous plant, Meum athamanticum”), from Ancient Greek μῆον (mêon), probably from μεῖον (meîon, “lesser”) for its small size. The English form came perhaps via Middle French meu, a word with a single isolated attestation from the 14th century which only began to appear consistently from 1568, by which time the word was established in English.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “meu”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is M-E-U - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈmjuː/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “my” - see the side-by-side comparison. meu vs my
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.