Moselle
/məʊˈzɛl/
"moselle" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Moselle” is uncommon English (frequency #70,099 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,099
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A left tributary of Rhine, flowing through the departments of Vosges, Meurthe-et-Moselle and Moselle in northeastern France, through Luxembourg, and through the states of Rhineland-Palatinate and S...
Corpus desk
Index EN-moselle · Moselle · English
Moselle · rank #70,099 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,099
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH mothballed
Nearest frequency peer: mothballed (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “Moselle”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- misspell
misspell
29,912 corpus weight
- Moga
Moga
29,910 corpus weight
- moreso
moreso
29,904 corpus weight
- Moselle
Moselle
29,902 corpus weight
- mothballed
mothballed
29,901 corpus weight
- Muharram
Muharram
29,898 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Moselle” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Moselle |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /məʊˈzɛl/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #70,099 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Moselle” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Moselle is uncommon English at frequency #70,099 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /məʊˈzɛl/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for Moselle in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from French Moselle, from Latin Mosella. The correct English form is Moselle, spelled M-O-S-E-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1A left tributary of Rhine, flowing through the departments of Vosges, Meurthe-et-Moselle and Moselle in northeastern France, through Luxembourg, and through the states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland, Germany.
- 2A department of Grand Est, France.
Etymology
Borrowed from French Moselle, from Latin Mosella.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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