ému
\e.my\
The verdict
“ému” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #10,978) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #10,978
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - En proie à une émotion plus ou moins vive.
Corpus desk
Index FR-emu · ému · French
ému · rank #10,978 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,978
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH écurie
Nearest frequency peer: écurie (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « ému »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- Yémen
Yémen
89,026 corpus weight
- écrivant
écrivant
89,025 corpus weight
- écurie
écurie
89,024 corpus weight
- ému
ému
89,023 corpus weight
- équité
équité
89,022 corpus weight
- étonnante
étonnante
89,021 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « ému » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | ému |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \e.my\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #10,978 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « ému »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ému is neighbouring look-alikes ("et", "en", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced \e.my\. Frequency #10,978 among 1,805 “É” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
ému doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "et", "en", "Eu", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is ému, spelled É-M-U.
Definition
- 1En proie à une émotion plus ou moins vive.
- 2Qui manifeste une émotion.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ému appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’étais si ému que je ne pouvais plus parler.
Étymologiquement, que signifie « é-mu » ? Mû hors de. Un homme ému est un homme arraché à lui-même, arraché au « je » relatif qui aurait pu se manifester en lui. Un homme ému est un homme aliéné, décentré.
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Antonyms
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).