ewe
The verdict
“ewe” is uncommon French (frequency #88,606 among 201,161 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,606
- frequency rank, French
- 201,161
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Variante de aigue (« eau »).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ewe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #88,606 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ewe” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
ewe is uncommon French at frequency #88,606 among 201,161 “E” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante de aigue (« eau »).".
ewe doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
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 ewe, spelled E-W-E.
Definition
- 1Variante de aigue (« eau »).
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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Using “ewe”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is E-W-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.