meulière
\mø.ljɛʁ\
The verdict
“meulière” is uncommon French (frequency #87,841 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,841
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pierre rocailleuse dont on fait des meules de moulin et qu’on emploie aussi comme moellon pour bâtir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-meuliere · meulière · French
meulière · rank #87,841 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,841
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mesureur
Nearest frequency peer: mesureur (-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 « meulière »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Merv
Merv
12,163 corpus weight
- messianisme
messianisme
12,162 corpus weight
- mesureur
mesureur
12,161 corpus weight
- meulière
meulière
12,160 corpus weight
- MEZ
MEZ
12,158 corpus weight
- microéconom…
microéconomie
12,157 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « meulière » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | meulière |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mø.ljɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #87,841 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « meulière » en français
Rare enough to double-check
meulière is uncommon French at frequency #87,841 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mø.ljɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for meulière, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is meulière, spelled M-E-U-L-I-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Pierre rocailleuse dont on fait des meules de moulin et qu’on emploie aussi comme moellon pour bâtir.
- 2La carrière d’où l’on tire ces sortes de pierre.
- 3(par extension) Maison bâtie avec cette pierre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how meulière appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mur bâti en meulière.
Des pavillons en pierres meulières, trouées comme des éponges, remarquait Gérard de Nerval, auxquelles s’accrochent des rosiers grimpants.
Synonyms
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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