mener
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mener |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \mə.ne\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #2,682 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 1Conduire quelqu’un vers un être ou une chose.
- 2Aller, se diriger vers, en parlant d’un chemin, d’une route.
- 3Conduire par force en quelque endroit.
- 4Diriger, entraîner à sa suite.
- 5Diriger, conduire des animaux.
- 6Diriger un véhicule, une embarcation.
- 7Voiturer quelqu’un ou quelque chose.
- 8Se faire accompagner de ou par.
- 9Faire agir, gouverner quelqu’un à sa guise.
- 10Forcer à suivre.
- 11Diriger, déterminer les hommes.
- 12Administrer, diriger, en parlant des choses.
- 13Diriger le développement de quelque chose.
- 14Avoir un meilleur score que l’adversaire au cours d’un match.
- 15Lancer le but et entamer la partie ou une nouvelle manche (appelée de ce fait une « mène »).
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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"
Frequency rank: #2,682 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter M in our French index: