Meux
\mø\
The verdict
“Meux” is uncommon French (frequency #96,125 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,125
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département de la Charente-Maritime.
Corpus desk
Index FR-meux · Meux · French
Meux · rank #96,125 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,125
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH melty
Nearest frequency peer: melty (-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 « Meux »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Mechelen
Mechelen
3,880 corpus weight
- Meda
Meda
3,879 corpus weight
- melty
melty
3,877 corpus weight
- Meux
Meux
3,876 corpus weight
- MGP
MGP
3,874 corpus weight
- miaulement
miaulement
3,873 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Meux » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Meux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \mø\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #96,125 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Meux » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Meux is uncommon French at frequency #96,125 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \mø\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Commune française, située dans le département de la Charente-Maritime.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Meux, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Meux, spelled M-E-U-X.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département de la Charente-Maritime.
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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