miaou
\mja.u\
The verdict
“miaou” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #48,045. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,045
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 16
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Onomatopée qui exprime le cri du chat ; bruit du miaulement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-miaou · miaou · French
miaou · rank #48,045 · 5 variants · 16 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,045
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH meringue
Nearest frequency peer: meringue (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « miaou »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- menhir
menhir
51,959 corpus weight
- mercis
mercis
51,958 corpus weight
- meringue
meringue
51,957 corpus weight
- miaou
miaou
51,956 corpus weight
- militarisat…
militarisation
51,954 corpus weight
- milon
milon
51,953 corpus weight
What this shows « miaou » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | miaou |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Onomatopoeia |
| IPA | \mja.u\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #48,045 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « miaou »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around miaou (IPA \mja.u\), anonomatopoeia. Corpus frequency is #48,045 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Onomatopée qui exprime le cri du chat ; bruit du miaulement.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for miaou, with forms such as "imaou", "maiou", and "miauo". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 16 confusable-pair relationships, "mou", "mio", "milo", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is miaou, spelled M-I-A-O-U.
Definition
- 1Onomatopée qui exprime le cri du chat ; bruit du miaulement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how miaou appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il y avait une sorte de supplication touchante et furieuse dans l’accent plaintif et rageur des sempiternels miaou qu’il poussait de seconde en seconde, tantôt s’étirant sur ses pattes comme pour assouplir son corps et pour aiguiser ses griffes, tantôt courbant l’échine à la manière de ces bons apôtres, qui pour obtenir quelque faveur, vous saluent obséqu…
Sans boire ni manger, elle faisait des retraites prolongées sur le haut des murs, immobile pendant des journées entières à la même place, ne répondant à tous nos appels que par des regards attendris et de plaintifs petits « miaou ».
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- imaou
- maiou
- miauo
- mioau
- mmiaou
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of miaou - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).