muy
\ˈmuj\
The verdict
“muy” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #37,935) as an adverb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #37,935
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Très.
Corpus desk
Index FR-muy · muy · French
muy · rank #37,935 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,935
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH murmurer
Nearest frequency peer: murmurer (-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 « muy »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- mousseline
mousseline
62,069 corpus weight
- mural
mural
62,068 corpus weight
- murmurer
murmurer
62,067 corpus weight
- muy
muy
62,066 corpus weight
- myriade
myriade
62,065 corpus weight
- mysticisme
mysticisme
62,064 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « muy » 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 | muy |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \ˈmuj\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #37,935 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « muy »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for muy is neighbouring look-alikes ("my", "MW", …), not just typos; it is anadverb pronounced \ˈmuj\. Frequency #37,935 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Gloss: "Très.".
muy has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "my", "MW", "Mx", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is muy, spelled M-U-Y.
Definition
- 1Très.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how muy appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tengo un coche muy caro.
« […]. Los aviones volaban muy bajo, […]. »
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).