ewe

noun

The verdict

“ewe” is uncommon French (frequency #88,606 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#88,606
frequency rank, French
3,255
“E” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante de aigue (« eau »).

Corpus desk

Index FR-ewe · ewe · French

ewe · rank #88,606 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #88,606
  • LEN-MID 3 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,255
  • PHOTO-FINISH excentrés

Nearest frequency peer: excentrés (+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.

Rangs de longue queue près de « ewe »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ewe » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for ewe
PropertyValue
Headwordewe
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
Letters3
Frequency rank#88,606
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « ewe » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).ewetombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « excentrés » (#88,607), « Eustace » (#88,604), « exposeront » (#88,608). Parmi 3,255 lemmes en « E », « ewe » est au #88,606. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

ewe is uncommon French at frequency #88,606 among 3,255 “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

  1. 1
    Variante de aigue (« eau »).

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Halt sunt li pui e tenebrus e grant, Li val parfunt e les ewes curant.

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 "ewe"?
"ewe" is spelled E-W-E.
What does "ewe" mean?
As a noun, "ewe" means: Variante de aigue (« eau »).
What language does "ewe" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "ewe", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list