le moment venu
The verdict
“le moment venu” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Au moment propice.
Corpus desk
Index FR-le-moment-venu · le moment venu · French
le moment venu · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "L" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | le moment venu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « le moment venu » en français
Rare enough to double-check
le moment venu is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadverb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Au moment propice.".
le moment venu has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is le moment venu, spelled L-E- -M-O-M-E-N-T- -V-E-N-U.
Definition
- 1Au moment propice.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how le moment venu appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En un mot, et pour me répéter, le moment venu, mon bonheur est là, et.... je.... le.... tiens!
Le moment venu on redistribua prospectus sur prospectus, cartes-annonces sur cartes-annonces; Paris s'emplit à nouveau de la nouvelle de l'apparition du roman à sensation et lorsque la publication en commença on tira à cent mille exemplaires un numéro gratuit que l'on sema dans la France entière.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.