meow
\miˈaʊ̯\
The verdict
“meow” is uncommon French (frequency #98,243 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as an onomatopoeia. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,243
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Miaou (onomatopée exprimant le cri du chat).
Corpus desk
Index FR-meow · meow · French
meow · rank #98,243 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,243
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH merengues
Nearest frequency peer: merengues (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « meow »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Meije
Meije
1,763 corpus weight
- Meilhac
Meilhac
1,762 corpus weight
- meow
meow
1,758 corpus weight
- merengues
merengues
1,757 corpus weight
- mermaid
mermaid
1,756 corpus weight
- miaulements
miaulements
1,754 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « meow » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | meow |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Onomatopoeia |
| IPA | \miˈaʊ̯\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #98,243 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « meow » en français
Rare enough to double-check
meow is uncommon French at frequency #98,243 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anonomatopoeia, transcribed \miˈaʊ̯\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
meow has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is meow, spelled M-E-O-W.
Definition
- 1Miaou (onomatopée exprimant le cri du chat).
- 2Utilisé pour répondre à une remarque blessante.
- 3Expression de séduction imitant un feulement.
Synonyms
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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