menus

\mə.ny\

/\mə.ny\/ adj

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The verdict

“menus” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,618. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#11,618
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de menu.

Corpus desk

Index FR-menus · menus · French

menus · rank #11,618 · 7 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #11,618
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH mentalement

Nearest frequency peer: mentalement (-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 « menus »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « menus » 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).

menus vs mes
60% similar
menus vs mus
60% similar
menus vs meu
60% similar

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

Key facts for menus
PropertyValue
Headwordmenus
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\mə.ny\
Letters5
Frequency rank#11,618
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « menus »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.menusse 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 « mentalement » (#11,617), « metteur » (#11,619), « maya » (#11,616). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « menus » est au #11,618. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around menus (IPA \mə.ny\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #11,618 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de menu.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for menus, with forms such as "emnus", "mennus", and "mensu". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mes", "mus", "meu", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is menus, spelled M-E-N-U-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Masculin pluriel de menu.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Il songea aux centaines de dizeaux que les mains maintenant inertes du vieillard avaient liés en gerbes au cours de sa vie, au nombre de fois où elles avaient caressé la chevelure de sa promise ou pris la main de sa petite fille, et à tous ces menus objets de la vie courante qu’elles avaient réalisé, et qui leur survivraient.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • emnus
  • mennus
  • mensu
  • menuss
  • meuns
  • mmenus
  • mneus

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of menus - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

emnus2mennus1mensu2menuss1meuns2mmenus1mneus2
Edit distance from "menus"

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 "menus"?
"menus" is spelled M-E-N-U-S. The IPA pronunciation is \mə.ny\.
What does "menus" mean?
As an adjective, "menus" means: Masculin pluriel de menu.
What words are commonly confused with "menus"?
"menus" is commonly confused with "mes", "mus", "meu". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "menus"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "menus" is \mə.ny\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "menus" come from?
"menus" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

nuque#11,626logis#11,609karma#11,606joies#11,605

Similar misspelling depth

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

Freud7 variantsround7 variantsdéçus7 variantsdouane7 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list