miauler

\mjo.le\

/\mjo.le\/ verb

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The verdict

“miauler” is uncommon French (frequency #85,937 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#85,937
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Se dit du chat qui fait entendre le cri propre à son espèce.

Corpus desk

Index FR-miauler · miauler · French

miauler · rank #85,937 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #85,937
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH MGF

Nearest frequency peer: MGF (-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 « miauler »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « miauler » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for miauler
PropertyValue
Headwordmiauler
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\mjo.le\
Letters7
Frequency rank#85,937
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « miauler » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.miaulertombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « MGF » (#85,936), « meurtries » (#85,934), « misérabilisme » (#85,940). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « miauler » est au #85,937. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

miauler is uncommon French at frequency #85,937 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \mjo.le\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.

miauler has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is miauler, spelled M-I-A-U-L-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Se dit du chat qui fait entendre le cri propre à son espèce.
  2. 2
    Produire un bruit évoquant le miaulement d'un chat.
  3. 3
    Se dit du bruit des pneus qui patinent quand un véhicule accélère subitement.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how miauler appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. J’entends un chat qui miaule.
  2. Puis il se mit à miauler un couplet de seguidille, en andalou, avec des portements de voix si bizarres, des coups de gosier si étranges, des notes de tête si impossibles, qu’on eût dit la sérénade de Raminagrobis sous la gouttière de la chatte blanche.

This word in other languages

meow(English)maullar(Español)miauen(Deutsch)miar(Português)

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "miauler"?
"miauler" is spelled M-I-A-U-L-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \mjo.le\.
What does "miauler" mean?
As a verb, "miauler" means: Se dit du chat qui fait entendre le cri propre à son espèce.
How do you pronounce "miauler"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "miauler" is \mjo.le\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "miauler" come from?
"miauler" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "miauler", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list