mauresque
\mɔ.ʁɛsk\
The verdict
“mauresque” is uncommon French (frequency #60,951 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,951
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui appartient aux Maures.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mauresque · mauresque · French
mauresque · rank #60,951 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,951
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH matinaux
Nearest frequency peer: matinaux (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « mauresque »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- martre
martre
39,055 corpus weight
- Massimiliano
Massimiliano
39,054 corpus weight
- mastère
mastère
39,053 corpus weight
- matinaux
matinaux
39,051 corpus weight
- mauresque
mauresque
39,050 corpus weight
- Melania
Melania
39,045 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mauresque » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « mauresque » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mauresque is uncommon French at frequency #60,951 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \mɔ.ʁɛsk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mauresque appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« Voici, Monsieur, quelques renseignements intéressants sur les tribus mauresques les plus voisines de notre colonie du Sénégal ; ….
Seulement, elle étouffait entre les quatre murs blancs de la cour mauresque où elle était enfermée, et elle regrettait amèrement l'immensité libre de sa plaine natale, ….
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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