menée

\mə.ne\

/\mə.ne\/ noun

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The verdict

“menée” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,351. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#4,351
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pratique secrète et artificieuse dont on se sert pour faire réussir un projet.

Corpus desk

Index FR-menee · menée · French

menée · rank #4,351 · 7 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #4,351
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH mentir

Nearest frequency peer: mentir (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « menée »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « menée » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

menée vs Mère
20% similar
menée vs mine
60% similar
menée vs menu
60% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for menée
PropertyValue
Headwordmenée
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\mə.ne\
Letters5
Frequency rank#4,351
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « menée »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.menéese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « mentir » (#4,350), « merveilleux » (#4,352), « master » (#4,349). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « menée » est au #4,351. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around menée (IPA \mə.ne\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #4,351 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for menée, with forms such as "emnée", "menee", and "meneé". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Mère", "mine", "menu", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is menée, spelled M-E-N-É-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pratique secrète et artificieuse dont on se sert pour faire réussir un projet.
  2. 2
    Route suivie par une bête en fuite, en particulier un cerf.
  3. 3
    Congère.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how menée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. La veille du jour où il arrêta Eugène sur le cours Sauvaire, il avait publié, dans l’Indépendant, un article terrible sur les menées du clergé, en réponse à un entrefilet de Vuillet, qui accusait les républicains de vouloir démolir les églises.
  2. Quant au duc d’Orléans, il jouissait de peu de popularité et de peu d’influence. C’était l’homme des petites menées ; il rabaissait à sa taille les choses dont il s’occupait.

Synonyms

agissementsintriguemanœuvre

This word in other languages

tendency(English)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • emnée
  • menee
  • meneé
  • mennée
  • meéne
  • mmenée
  • mneée

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of menée - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

emnée2menee1meneé2mennée1meéne2mmenée1mneée2
Edit distance from "menée"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "menée"?
"menée" is spelled M-E-N-É-E. The IPA pronunciation is \mə.ne\.
What does "menée" mean?
As a noun, "menée" means: Pratique secrète et artificieuse dont on se sert pour faire réussir un projet.
What words are commonly confused with "menée"?
"menée" is commonly confused with "Mère", "mine", "menu". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "menée"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "menée" is \mə.ne\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "menée" come from?
"menée" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "menée", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

mince#4,353Nancy#4,355Laval#4,345joint#4,344

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

fumer7 variantsrecul7 variantsremet7 variantssœurs7 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list