meut
\mø\
The verdict
“meut” is uncommon French (frequency #50,969 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,969
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de mouvoir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-meut · meut · French
meut · rank #50,969 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,969
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mash
Nearest frequency peer: mash (-3 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 « meut »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- marchander
marchander
49,037 corpus weight
- marquisat
marquisat
49,036 corpus weight
- mash
mash
49,035 corpus weight
- meut
meut
49,032 corpus weight
- Mikel
Mikel
49,029 corpus weight
- misez
misez
49,028 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « meut » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | meut |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \mø\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #50,969 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « meut » en français
Rare enough to double-check
meut is uncommon French at frequency #50,969 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \mø\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de mouvoir.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for meut, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is meut, spelled M-E-U-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de mouvoir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how meut appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le roc lentement se meut et s’élève, tandis que se continue la lutte ; une peur croissante s’empare des misérables, de qui le courage faiblit ; ils hésitent ; mais toujours brave devant le danger, la jeune fille, d’un assaut terrible, heurte l’un des agresseurs qui perd pied et choit dans l’abîme où il disparaît en hurlant une malédiction aussitôt étouffée.
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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