mousse
/muːs/noun, verb
mousse is spelled M-O-U-S-S-E: 6 letters and one syllable. It appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 30,418th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, mousse means “An airy pudding served chilled, particularly chocolate mousse” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of mousse is mousses.
How many letters and syllables are in mousse?
| Letters | 6: M-O-U-S-S-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 1 million words; the 30,418th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Pairs people search | |
| Sounds like |
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 common is mousse?
Mousse appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 30,418th 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 mousse?
- /muːs/
- /ˈmʉs/
Mousse has one syllable (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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-mousse.wav, En-us-moose.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with mousse
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sounds like: moose (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
Forms of mousse
- mousses plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- moussing participle, present
- moussed participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does mousse mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
An airy pudding served chilled, particularly chocolate mousse.
- 2
A savory dish, of meat or seafood, containing gelatin.
ham mousse
- 3
A styling cream used for hair.
He slicked his hair back with mousse, but the cowlick still stuck up.
- 4
A stable emulsion of water and oil that is created by wave action churning the water where an oil spill occurs.
verb
- 1
To apply mousse (styling cream).
He moussed his hair in the morning and then washed it out at night.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Mousse in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | mousse |
| German | Mousse , Schaumfestiger |
| Portuguese | musse, mousse |
| Spanish | espumilla, mousse , espuma |
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 mousse come from?
From French mousse (“foam, froth”), from Old French mosse (“moss”), from Frankish or Old Dutch *mosa (“moss”), from Proto-Germanic *musą (“moss, bog, marsh”). More at moss.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).