moi
\mwa\
The verdict
“moi” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #73) as a pronoun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #73
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pronom tonique de la première personne du singulier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-moi · moi · French
moi · rank #73 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #73
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH leur
Nearest frequency peer: leur (-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 « moi »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- peut
peut
99,931 corpus weight
- deux
deux
99,930 corpus weight
- leur
leur
99,929 corpus weight
- moi
moi
99,928 corpus weight
- ces
ces
99,927 corpus weight
- quand
quand
99,926 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « moi » 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 | moi |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | \mwa\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #73 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « moi »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for moi is neighbouring look-alikes ("MR", "my", …), not just typos; it is apronoun pronounced \mwa\. Frequency #73 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Gloss: "Pronom tonique de la première personne du singulier.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for moi, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "MR", "my", "ms", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is moi, spelled M-O-I.
Definition
- 1Pronom tonique de la première personne du singulier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how moi appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On n’accuse point ce voyageur d’aimer à parler de soi ; on lui pardonne tous ces je et tous ces moi, parce que c’est la manière la plus claire et la plus intéressante de raconter ce qu’il a vu.
Il y avait en moi autre chose que ma volonté, et cette autre chose avait peur. Je me demandai ce que je pouvais redouter ; mon moi brave railla mon moi poltron, et jamais aussi bien que ce jour-là je ne saisis l’opposition des deux êtres qui sont en nous, l’un voulant, l’autre résistant, et chacun l’emportant tour à tour.
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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