mew
\mjuː\
The verdict
“mew” is uncommon French (frequency #54,729 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as an onomatopoeia. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,729
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Miaou (onomatopée exprimant le cri d’un chat, en particulier celui d’un chaton).
Corpus desk
Index FR-mew · mew · French
mew · rank #54,729 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,729
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Menahem
Nearest frequency peer: Menahem (-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 « mew »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- memento
memento
45,274 corpus weight
- Menahem
Menahem
45,273 corpus weight
- mew
mew
45,272 corpus weight
- Midas
Midas
45,271 corpus weight
- minage
minage
45,270 corpus weight
- mixed
mixed
45,269 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mew » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mew |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Onomatopoeia |
| IPA | \mjuː\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #54,729 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mew » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mew is uncommon French at frequency #54,729 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anonomatopoeia, transcribed \mjuː\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for mew in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is mew, spelled M-E-W.
Definition
- 1Miaou (onomatopée exprimant le cri d’un chat, en particulier celui d’un chaton).
- 2Onomatopée du cri d’une mouette ou d’une buse.
- 3Exclamation marquant la désapprobation.
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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