meant
\ˈmɛnt\
The verdict
“meant” is uncommon French (frequency #85,009 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,009
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prétérit de mean.
Corpus desk
Index FR-meant · meant · French
meant · rank #85,009 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,009
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH menotte
Nearest frequency peer: menotte (+2 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 « meant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mauviette
mauviette
14,995 corpus weight
- meant
meant
14,992 corpus weight
- menotte
menotte
14,990 corpus weight
- merlu
merlu
14,989 corpus weight
- messa
messa
14,988 corpus weight
- Metellus
Metellus
14,987 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « meant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | meant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈmɛnt\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #85,009 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « meant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
meant is uncommon French at frequency #85,009 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ˈmɛnt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for meant in our 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, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is meant, spelled M-E-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Prétérit de mean.
- 2Participe passé de mean.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how meant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Psychologists recruited avid fans of Manchester United. Fans wrote about what ManU meant to them, and were told they would record a short video tribute to their team in another building.
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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