meuh
\mø\
The verdict
“meuh” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #45,732. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #45,732
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Imitation du bruit produit par les bovins (meuglement).
Corpus desk
Index FR-meuh · meuh · French
meuh · rank #45,732 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #45,732
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH members
Nearest frequency peer: members (-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 « meuh »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- maniable
maniable
54,273 corpus weight
- matou
matou
54,272 corpus weight
- members
members
54,270 corpus weight
- meuh
meuh
54,269 corpus weight
- meurtrie
meurtrie
54,268 corpus weight
- Minervois
Minervois
54,266 corpus weight
What this shows « meuh » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | meuh |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Onomatopoeia |
| IPA | \mø\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #45,732 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « meuh »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around meuh (IPA \mø\), anonomatopoeia. Corpus frequency is #45,732 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Imitation du bruit produit par les bovins (meuglement).".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for meuh, with forms such as "emuh", "mehu", and "meuhh". 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, "mu", "mH", "mur", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is meuh, spelled M-E-U-H.
Definition
- 1Imitation du bruit produit par les bovins (meuglement).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how meuh appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Évidemment, une vache ça fait “meuh”… Qu’est-ce que tu veux qu’elle fasse ?
Animal encore, et en même temps récipient sacré, ustensile magique, le premier jouet dont je me souviens : une vache en fer-blanc ou en tôle, entièrement tendue d’une vraie peau de vache, et dont la tête tournait de droite à gauche en faisant meuh.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emuh
- mehu
- meuhh
- mmeuh
- mueh
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of meuh - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).