ewe
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
- eurométropo…
eurométropole
11,398 corpus weight
- Eustace
Eustace
11,397 corpus weight
- ewe
ewe
11,395 corpus weight
- excentrés
excentrés
11,394 corpus weight
- exposeront
exposeront
11,393 corpus weight
- expédiant
expédiant
11,392 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ewe » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « ewe » en français
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
- 1Variante de aigue (« eau »).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ewe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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