Moustache or mustache?
In American English write mustache; in British and Commonwealth English, moustache. moustache is a noun meaning “A growth of facial hair between the nose and the upper lip”; mustache is a noun meaning “US standard spelling of moustache”. In written English (wordfreq, 2021 data) mustache is about as common as moustache.
What is the difference between moustache and mustache?
| moustache | mustache | |
|---|---|---|
| Part of speech | noun | noun |
| Meaning | A growth of facial hair between the nose and the upper lip informalA curly bracket, { or } | USUS standard spelling of moustache |
| Example | none recorded | none recorded |
| Forms | moustaches | mustaches |
| Pronunciation | /məˈstɑːʃ/ /məˈstɒʃ/ /məˈstæʃ/ | not recorded |
| Region | no label | US |
| In writing | 1.7 times per million words | 2.6 times per million words |
Sources: moustache and mustache in the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Every current meaning of moustache and mustache
moustache
- 1
A growth of facial hair between the nose and the upper lip
- 2
informalA curly bracket, { or }
mustache
- 1
USUS standard spelling of moustache
Source: the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); obsolete, archaic, dialect and rare senses left out.
Which is more common, moustache or mustache?
moustache appears 1.7 times per million words; mustache 2.6 times per million words.
moustache 1.7 times per million wordsmustache 2.6 times per million words
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How many people search moustache vs mustache?
“moustache vs mustache” is searched about 480 times a month on Google and 30 on Bing in the United States. Google counts close variants of a query together (“mustache vs moustache”, “moustache or mustache”).
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