meu
\məˈy\
The verdict
“meu” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #44,580) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #44,580
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé masculin singulier du verbe movoir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-meu · meu · French
meu · rank #44,580 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,580
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Meghan
Nearest frequency peer: Meghan (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « meu »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- Maurizio
Maurizio
55,424 corpus weight
- maçonniques
maçonniques
55,423 corpus weight
- Meghan
Meghan
55,422 corpus weight
- meu
meu
55,421 corpus weight
- mezzanine
mezzanine
55,420 corpus weight
- mezzo
mezzo
55,419 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « meu » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | meu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \məˈy\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #44,580 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « meu »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for meu is neighbouring look-alikes ("mm", "mi", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced \məˈy\. Frequency #44,580 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Gloss: "Participe passé masculin singulier du verbe movoir.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for meu, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mm", "mi", "MR", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is meu, spelled M-E-U.
Definition
- 1Participe passé masculin singulier du verbe movoir.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).