moi

\mwa\

/\mwa\/ pron

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

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.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

moi vs MR
0% similar
moi vs my
33% similar
moi vs ms
33% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for moi
PropertyValue
Headwordmoi
LanguageFrench
Part of speechPronoun
IPA\mwa\
Letters3
Frequency rank#73
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rang de corpus près des confusables de « moi »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.moise place ici:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « leur » (#72), « ces » (#74), « deux » (#71). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « moi » est au #73. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Pronom tonique de la première personne du singulier.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. 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.
  2. 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.

Synonyms

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "moi"?
"moi" is spelled M-O-I. The IPA pronunciation is \mwa\.
What does "moi" mean?
As a pronoun, "moi" means: Pronom tonique de la première personne du singulier.
What words are commonly confused with "moi"?
"moi" is commonly confused with "MR", "my", "ms". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "moi"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "moi" is \mwa\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "moi" come from?
"moi" 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 "moi", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list