émeu
\e.mø\
The verdict
“émeu” is uncommon French (frequency #98,667 among 40,273 “É” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,667
- frequency rank, French
- 40,273
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Grand oiseau de la famille des dromaiidés, originaire d’Australie, et qui ne sait pas voler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-emeu · émeu · French
émeu · rank #98,667 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,667
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 40,273
- PHOTO-FINISH électronicien
Nearest frequency peer: électronicien (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “émeu”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- électroméca…
électromécaniques
1,336 corpus weight
- électronici…
électronicien
1,335 corpus weight
- émeu
émeu
1,334 corpus weight
- émeuve
émeuve
1,333 corpus weight
- épaulement
épaulement
1,332 corpus weight
- épousailles
épousailles
1,331 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “émeu” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | émeu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.mø\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #98,667 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “émeu” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
émeu is uncommon French at frequency #98,667 among 40,273 “É” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \e.mø\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Grand oiseau de la famille des dromaiidés, originaire d’Australie, et qui ne sait pas voler.".
émeu has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 émeu, spelled É-M-E-U.
Definition
- 1Grand oiseau de la famille des dromaiidés, originaire d’Australie, et qui ne sait pas voler.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how émeu appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Emu, l’émeu émet un son ronflant qui porte à deux kilomètres, grâce à une sorte de sac à vent qui n’est pas sans rappeler celui des cornemuses, et qu’on appelle la poche gulaire.
This word in other languages
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.