moisture
/ˈmɔɪs.t͡ʃɚ/noun
moisture is spelled M-O-I-S-T-U-R-E. The wrong spelling people search most is mosture: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 45 of all searches for the word. Moisture is a noun meaning “That which moistens or makes damp or wet; exuding fluid; liquid in small quantity”. The plural of moisture is moistures.
How many letters and syllables are in moisture?
| Letters | 8: M-O-I-S-T-U-R-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 7.9 times per million words; the 8,266th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, mosture, about 20 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell moisture?
Moisture is spelled M-O-I-S-T-U-R-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 46 of the searches for moisture in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is moisture?
Moisture appears 7.9 times per million words in written English, the 8,266th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce moisture?
- UK /ˈmɔɪs.t͡ʃə/
- US /ˈmɔɪs.t͡ʃɚ/
- US /ˈmɔɪʃ.t͡ʃɚ/
Moisture has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-moisture.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of moisture
- moistures plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does moisture mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
That which moistens or makes damp or wet; exuding fluid; liquid in small quantity.
drops / beads of moisture
- 2
The state of being moist.
- 3
Skin moisture noted as dry, moist, clammy, or diaphoretic as part of the skin signs assessment.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Moisture in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense the state of being moist – see also moistness:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does moisture come from?
From Middle English moisture, from Old French moistour (“moisture, dampness, wetness”). Compare French moiteur.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).