moi
/mwɑː/pronoun
moi is spelled M-O-I: 3 letters and one syllable. It appears 1.8 times per million words in written English, the 20,629th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a pronoun, moi means “Me” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in moi?
| Letters | 3: M-O-I |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.8 times per million words; the 20,629th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Sounds like | |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is moi?
Moi appears 1.8 times per million words in written English, the 20,629th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce moi?
- /mwɑː/
Moi has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-moi.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with moi
Sounds like: mwah (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with moi?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as moi.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: imo, omi.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
What does moi mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
pronoun
- 1
Me.
Don't you be so cheeky. – Cheeky? Moi?
noun
- 1
Initialism of mechanism of injury.
The patient's MOI is easy to identify, as opposed to the NOI, which is symptomatic only.
noun
- 1
A member of the Montagnard people of Vietnam.
- 2
An indigenous tribe of Southwest Papua.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does moi come from?
Borrowed from French moi.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).