meuvent
\mœv\
The verdict
“meuvent” is uncommon French (frequency #90,934 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,934
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de mouvoir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-meuvent · meuvent · French
meuvent · rank #90,934 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,934
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Mexican
Nearest frequency peer: Mexican (+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 « meuvent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- merge
merge
9,070 corpus weight
- meringuée
meringuée
9,069 corpus weight
- meuvent
meuvent
9,067 corpus weight
- Mexican
Mexican
9,066 corpus weight
- mice
mice
9,065 corpus weight
- microbiens
microbiens
9,064 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « meuvent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | meuvent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \mœv\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #90,934 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « meuvent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
meuvent is uncommon French at frequency #90,934 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \mœv\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
meuvent has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is meuvent, spelled M-E-U-V-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de mouvoir.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de mouvoir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how meuvent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les branches, si légères qu’elles soient, ne se meuvent pas seules, il faut que la brise les agite, ou bien que quelqu’un les remue.
L’indigent se révèle être une personne qui vit en dehors des considérations qui meuvent la personne normale.
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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