mauresque
\mɔ.ʁɛsk\
The verdict
“mauresque” is an uncommon French word, ranked #60,951 in French word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #60,951
- frequency rank, French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Qui appartient aux Maures.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mauresque |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \mɔ.ʁɛsk\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #60,951 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mauresque” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for mauresque is 9 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɔ.ʁɛsk\. Corpus data places it at rank #60,951 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Qui appartient aux Maures.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for mauresque, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is mauresque, spelled M-A-U-R-E-S-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Qui appartient aux Maures.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “mauresque”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is M-A-U-R-E-S-Q-U-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \mɔ.ʁɛsk\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.