moue
\mu\
The verdict
“moue” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #29,453) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #29,453
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Grimace que l’on fait en rapprochant et en allongeant les lèvres, en signe de dérision ou de mécontentement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-moue · moue · French
moue · rank #29,453 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,453
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH motions
Nearest frequency peer: motions (-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 « moue »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- montures
montures
70,551 corpus weight
- morose
morose
70,550 corpus weight
- motions
motions
70,549 corpus weight
- moue
moue
70,548 corpus weight
- mouillage
mouillage
70,547 corpus weight
- mules
mules
70,546 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « moue » 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 | moue |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mu\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #29,453 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « moue »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for moue is neighbouring look-alikes ("mu", "mur", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \mu\. Frequency #29,453 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Gloss: "Grimace que l’on fait en rapprochant et en allongeant les lèvres, en signe de dérision ou de mécontentement.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for moue, with forms such as "mmoue", "moeu", and "muoe". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mu", "mur", "mue", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is moue, spelled M-O-U-E.
Definition
- 1Grimace que l’on fait en rapprochant et en allongeant les lèvres, en signe de dérision ou de mécontentement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how moue appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vos deux lèvres s’allongent comme si vous faisiez la moue : d’où vient que si vous la voulez faire à quelqu’un, et vous moquer de lui, vous ne sauriez lui dire que : U.
Quand on lui demandait son avis, il répétait poliment l’opinion de la majorité. Rien ne parvint à lasser sa patience, ni les rêves creux du marquis qui parlait des Bourbons comme au lendemain de 1815, ni les effusions bourgeoises de Roudier, qui s’attendrissait en comptant le nombre de paires de chaussettes qu’il avait fournies jadis au roi citoyen. Au co…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mmoue
- moeu
- muoe
- omue
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of moue - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).