mug
\mœɡ\
The verdict
“mug” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #31,613) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #31,613
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Grande tasse dont la forme et la capacité rappellent une chope.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mug · mug · French
mug · rank #31,613 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,613
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH moy
Nearest frequency peer: moy (-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 « mug »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- mouettes
mouettes
68,390 corpus weight
- moy
moy
68,389 corpus weight
- mug
mug
68,388 corpus weight
- muscler
muscler
68,387 corpus weight
- mythologique
mythologique
68,386 corpus weight
- mécréants
mécréants
68,385 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « mug » 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 | mug |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mœɡ\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #31,613 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « mug »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for mug is neighbouring look-alikes ("my", "MW", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \mœɡ\. Frequency #31,613 among 5,038 “M” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for mug, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "my", "MW", "Mx", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is mug, spelled M-U-G.
Definition
- 1Grande tasse dont la forme et la capacité rappellent une chope.
- 2Maquillage d'une drag queen.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mug appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sur les 80 m² de surface, les Phryges, les mascottes officielles de l’événement (lire aussi page 7), côtoient mugs, tee-shirts et autres produits dérivés qui raviront petits et grands.
Transi par l'humidité fraîche et pénétrante, je préfère me réchauffer en serrant entre mes doigts un mug de thé à la bergamote.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).