mée
\me\
The verdict
“mée” is uncommon French (frequency #61,722 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,722
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Coffre en bois qu’on utilisait, dans certaines provinces de France, pour ranger la vaisselle ou les aliments.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mee · mée · French
mée · rank #61,722 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,722
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH médianes
Nearest frequency peer: médianes (-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 « mée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mutualisé
mutualisé
38,282 corpus weight
- mycose
mycose
38,281 corpus weight
- médianes
médianes
38,280 corpus weight
- mée
mée
38,279 corpus weight
- méprisants
méprisants
38,278 corpus weight
- méritoire
méritoire
38,277 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \me\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #61,722 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mée is uncommon French at frequency #61,722 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \me\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
mée doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 mée, spelled M-É-E.
Definition
- 1Coffre en bois qu’on utilisait, dans certaines provinces de France, pour ranger la vaisselle ou les aliments.
- 2Huche à pain, pétrin.
- 3Récipient destiner à opérer le salage de poissons, les harengs par exemple.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
… des caqueurs les éviscéraient dans des mannes ou dans des auges de trois à quatre mètres de longueur appelées « mées ».
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).