mef
\mɛf\
The verdict
“mef” is uncommon French (frequency #89,917 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,917
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Négatif, qui n’est pas.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mef · mef · French
mef · rank #89,917 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,917
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH medicina
Nearest frequency peer: medicina (-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 « mef »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Mazeaud
Mazeaud
10,088 corpus weight
- medicina
medicina
10,085 corpus weight
- mef
mef
10,084 corpus weight
- Melfi
Melfi
10,083 corpus weight
- mense
mense
10,082 corpus weight
- mentionnerai
mentionnerai
10,081 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mef » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mef |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \mɛf\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #89,917 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mef » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mef is uncommon French at frequency #89,917 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \mɛf\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Négatif, qui n’est pas.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for mef, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 mef, spelled M-E-F.
Definition
- 1Négatif, qui n’est pas.
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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