mei
\ˈmɛi\
The verdict
“mei” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #21,392) as a conjunction. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #21,392
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ni (liaison simple).
Corpus desk
Index FR-mei · mei · French
mei · rank #21,392 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,392
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH maîtresses
Nearest frequency peer: maîtresses (-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 « mei »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- marrante
marrante
78,612 corpus weight
- mayonnaise
mayonnaise
78,611 corpus weight
- maîtresses
maîtresses
78,610 corpus weight
- mei
mei
78,609 corpus weight
- mensuelles
mensuelles
78,608 corpus weight
- merveilleus…
merveilleusement
78,607 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « mei » 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 | mei |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Conjunction |
| IPA | \ˈmɛi\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #21,392 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « mei »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for mei is neighbouring look-alikes ("mm", "mi", …), not just typos; it is aconjunction pronounced \ˈmɛi\. Frequency #21,392 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Gloss: "Ni (liaison simple).".
Zero misspellings are on record for mei in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mm", "mi", "MR", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is mei, spelled M-E-I.
Definition
- 1Ni (liaison simple).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mei appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Va razeka mei ar pormolk me fu patá.
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 "mei", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).