mmm
[mmm]
The verdict
“mmm” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #24,289) as an onomatopoeia. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #24,289
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Onomatopée qui exprime le désir ou le bonheur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mmm · mmm · French
mmm · rank #24,289 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,289
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH minutieux
Nearest frequency peer: minutieux (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « mmm »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- MILF
MILF
75,714 corpus weight
- minutieux
minutieux
75,713 corpus weight
- mmm
mmm
75,712 corpus weight
- monastique
monastique
75,711 corpus weight
- mouvementée
mouvementée
75,710 corpus weight
- muté
muté
75,709 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « mmm » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | mmm |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Onomatopoeia |
| IPA | [mmm] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #24,289 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « mmm »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for mmm is neighbouring look-alikes ("MR", "my", …), not just typos; it is anonomatopoeia pronounced [mmm]. Frequency #24,289 among 5,038 “M” headwords. 4 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for mmm, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "MR", "my", "ms", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is mmm, spelled M-M-M.
Definition
- 1Onomatopée qui exprime le désir ou le bonheur.
- 2Onomatopée qui exprime l’hésitation.
- 3Onomatopée qui remplace les paroles de quelqu’un en train de lire.
- 4Sous forme interrogative, onomatopée sollicitant une approbation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mmm appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un morceau de gâteau au chocolat ? Mmm, ça doit être bon.
— Justement, ça laisse peut-être la possibilité de dire tout ce que tu veux. — Mmm. Je ne sais pas quoi marquer.
This word in other languages
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "mmm", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).