Eu
\ø\
The verdict
“Eu” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #163) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #163
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département de la Seine-Maritime.
Corpus desk
Index FR-eu · Eu · French
Eu · rank #163 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #163
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH car
Nearest frequency peer: car (-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 neighbours of confusable “Eu”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- partie
partie
99,841 corpus weight
- 4
4
99,840 corpus weight
- car
car
99,839 corpus weight
- Eu
Eu
99,838 corpus weight
- mal
mal
99,837 corpus weight
- première
première
99,836 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “Eu” against nearest ranked French headwords, not a reprint of the confusable-pair desk.
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 | Eu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ø\ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #163 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “Eu” se place dans la fréquence du français
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Eu is neighbouring look-alikes ("ez", "EV", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced \ø\. Frequency #163 among 3,255 “E” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Eu, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ez", "EV", "euh", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Eu, spelled E-U.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département de la Seine-Maritime.
- 2Canton français, situé dans le département de la Seine-Maritime.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Eu appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les ravins dont la réunion forme la vallée de la Bresle qui s'ouvre dans la Manche, au-dessous de la ville d’Eu , commencent par des plis de terrain dans les bois de Formerie et à Secqueville , dépendance contiguë de Bouvresse : […].
Au point culminant du plateau qui domine Eu au nord, à 1800 mèt. de la ville, sur la rive droite de la Bresle et près de la route d’Abbeville, la chapelle Saint-Laurent, petit édifice sans intérêt, attire un grand nombre de pèlerins.
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.