eo

noun

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The verdict

“eo” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #43,418) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#43,418
frequency rank, French
3,255
“E” headwords
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Je : première personne du singulier au cas sujet.

Corpus desk

Index FR-eo · eo · French

eo · rank #43,418 · 0 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #43,418
  • LEN-SHORT 2 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,255
  • PHOTO-FINISH envoyais

Nearest frequency peer: envoyais (-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 “eo”

Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)

corpus weight

What this shows Bars show where “eo” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

eo vs et
50% similar
eo vs Eu
0% similar
eo vs ez
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for eo
PropertyValue
Headwordeo
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
Letters2
Frequency rank#43,418
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Où “eo” se place dans la fréquence du français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).eose 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 « envoyais » (#43,417), « Etna » (#43,420), « expier » (#43,421). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for eo is neighbouring look-alikes ("et", "Eu", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #43,418 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Gloss: "Je : première personne du singulier au cas sujet.".

eo has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "et", "Eu", "ez", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 eo, spelled E-O.

Definition

  1. 1
    Je : première personne du singulier au cas sujet.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how eo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Pro Deo amur et pro christian poblo et nostro commun salvament, d'ist di en avant, in quant Deus savir et podir me dunat, si salvarai eo cist meon fradre Karlo et in aiudha et in cadhuna cosa, si cum om per dreit son fradra salvar dift, in o quid il mi altresi fazet, et ab Ludher nul plaid nunquam prindrai, qui meon vol cist meon fradre Karle in damno sit.

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 "eo"?
"eo" is spelled E-O.
What does "eo" mean?
As a noun, "eo" means: Je : première personne du singulier au cas sujet.
What words are commonly confused with "eo"?
"eo" is commonly confused with "et", "Eu", "ez". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "eo" come from?
"eo" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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  • "eo" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "et". View pair
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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.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list