meule
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#29,861
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
meule is aFrenchnoun. It means: Roue en pierre, en bois, qui sert à broyer en tournant. Pronounced \møl\. Often confused with mue and mle.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | meule |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \møl\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #29,861 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for meule is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \møl\. Corpus data places it at rank #29,861 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 13 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for meule, with forms such as "emule", "melue", and "meuel". 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, "mue", "mle", "Mlle", 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 meule, spelled M-E-U-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Roue en pierre, en bois, qui sert à broyer en tournant.
- 2Roue de grès, de fer ou d’acier, de bois, etc., dont on se sert dans diverses professions pour aiguiser, user, polir, etc.
- 3Objet qui a la forme ronde et plate de la meule.
- 4Monceau de bottes de foin, de gerbes de blé, de seigle, etc., dressé dans les champs auquel on donne ordinairement une forme conique, afin que la pluie glisse dessus plus facilement.
- 5Empilement de bois construit autour d’une cheminée centrale, à laquelle le charbonnier met le feu en vue de produire du charbon de bois.
- 6Base dure et raboteuse du bois des cerfs, des daims et des chevreuils.
- 7Motocyclette, mobylette.
- 8Synonyme de carassin commun (poisson).
- 9Tas de substrat (compost, fumier ou autre) sur lequel est pratiquée la culture de champignons.
- 10Tas de mâchis de végétaux que les fourmis champignonnistes utilisent pour faire pousser leur champignon symbiote.
- 11Morceau de verre qui reste attaché à la canne du verrier après que l’objet soufflé en a été détaché.
- 12Fessier ; fesses.
- 13Guitare
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: emule,melue,meuel,meulle,mmeule,muele
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for meule
Misspelling Variants of "meule"
Frequency rank: #29,861 in French
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