mener

/\mə.ne\/ verb

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#2,682

in French word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

mener is aFrenchverb. It means: Conduire quelqu’un vers un être ou une chose. Pronounced \mə.ne\. It ranks #2,682 in French word frequency. Often confused with mer and Mère.

Key facts for mener
PropertyValue
Headwordmener
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\mə.ne\
Letters5
Frequency rank#2,682
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of mener in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for mener is 5 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mə.ne\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,682 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 15 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for mener, with forms such as "emner", "meenr", and "menerr". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mer", "Mère", "mine", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is mener, spelled M-E-N-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Conduire quelqu’un vers un être ou une chose.
  2. 2
    Aller, se diriger vers, en parlant d’un chemin, d’une route.
  3. 3
    Conduire par force en quelque endroit.
  4. 4
    Diriger, entraîner à sa suite.
  5. 5
    Diriger, conduire des animaux.
  6. 6
    Diriger un véhicule, une embarcation.
  7. 7
    Voiturer quelqu’un ou quelque chose.
  8. 8
    Se faire accompagner de ou par.
  9. 9
    Faire agir, gouverner quelqu’un à sa guise.
  10. 10
    Forcer à suivre.
  11. 11
    Diriger, déterminer les hommes.
  12. 12
    Administrer, diriger, en parlant des choses.
  13. 13
    Diriger le développement de quelque chose.
  14. 14
    Avoir un meilleur score que l’adversaire au cours d’un match.
  15. 15
    Lancer le but et entamer la partie ou une nouvelle manche (appelée de ce fait une « mène »).

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: emner,meenr,menerr,menner,menre,mmener,mneer

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for mener

Misspelling Variants of "mener"

emner5meenr5menerr6menner6menre5mmener6mneer5
Misspelling Variants of "mener"

Frequency rank: #2,682 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "mener"?
"mener" is spelled M-E-N-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \mə.ne\.
What does "mener" mean?
As a verb, "mener" means: Conduire quelqu’un vers un être ou une chose.
What words are commonly confused with "mener"?
"mener" is commonly confused with "mer", "Mère", "mine". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "mener"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "mener" is \mə.ne\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "mener" come from?
"mener" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.