mon vs moy, What's the Difference?

Which to use

“mon” is a determiner and “moy” is a pronoun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#66
“mon” frequency rank: #31,612
“moy” frequency rank: 31678
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	mon	moy
Definition	Marque la possession ou l’appartenance. Le possesseur est le locuteur, ce qu’il possède est au masculin singulier.	Variante de moi.

Letter map: mon vs moy

Shared letters muted; letters that set mon and moy apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

3 ch

mon

3 ch

moy

Role in the sentence - mon and moy

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: mon is adeterminer and moyapronoun. On the page they differ by a single letter - n in “mon” becomes y in “moy”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 31678, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

mon is recorded at frequency rank #66, classified as adet, pronounced \mɔ̃\. moy is at rank #31,612, tagged as apron.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 31678, this pair ranks #302,278 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of mon vs moy

Shared letters: mo. Private to "mon": n. Private to "moy": y.

"mon" · 3 letters · shape CVC · "moy" · 3 letters · shape CVV

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "mon" and "moy" mean the same thing in a sentence?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "mon" is a determiner and "moy" a pronoun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

Which is more common, "mon" or "moy"?

"mon" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #66 in our French list, against #31,612 for "moy". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "mon" and "moy".

Full dictionary entry for "mon" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "moy" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #302,278 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"mon" and "moy" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "moy vs MWh". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #302,278 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.