meet
\ˈmit\
The verdict
“meet” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #19,597) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #19,597
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 2
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rencontrer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-meet · meet · French
meet · rank #19,597 · 2 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,597
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 2 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH messire
Nearest frequency peer: messire (+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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « meet »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- martiale
martiale
80,408 corpus weight
- mathématici…
mathématicien
80,407 corpus weight
- meet
meet
80,404 corpus weight
- messire
messire
80,403 corpus weight
- Meurthe
Meurthe
80,402 corpus weight
- migraine
migraine
80,401 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « meet » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | meet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈmit\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #19,597 |
| Misspellings tracked | 2 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « meet »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for meet is neighbouring look-alikes ("Mt", "mes", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced \ˈmit\. Frequency #19,597 among 5,038 “M” headwords. 5 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 2 likely wrong-spelling variants for meet, including "meett" and "mmeet". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Mt", "mes", "mot", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is meet, spelled M-E-E-T.
Definition
- 1Rencontrer.
- 2Se rencontrer, faire connaissance.
- 3Se réunir.
- 4Retrouver, rejoindre.
- 5Être satisfait.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how meet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I would like to meet Elvis.
The two met three years ago in China.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- meett
- mmeet
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of meet - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "meet", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).