mochi
\mɔ.(t)ʃi\
The verdict
“mochi” is uncommon French (frequency #96,137 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,137
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gâteau à base de riz gluant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mochi · mochi · French
mochi · rank #96,137 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,137
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mobylettes
Nearest frequency peer: mobylettes (-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 « mochi »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- missed
missed
3,867 corpus weight
- miséricordi…
miséricordieuse
3,866 corpus weight
- mobylettes
mobylettes
3,865 corpus weight
- mochi
mochi
3,864 corpus weight
- modales
modales
3,863 corpus weight
- modest
modest
3,862 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mochi » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mochi |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɔ.(t)ʃi\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #96,137 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mochi » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mochi is uncommon French at frequency #96,137 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mɔ.(t)ʃi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Gâteau à base de riz gluant.".
No misspelling variants are generated for mochi in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
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 mochi, spelled M-O-C-H-I.
Definition
- 1Gâteau à base de riz gluant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mochi appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Depuis un moment, je ne contrôlais plus mes mollets. Pour le jour de l’An, j’aurais préféré quelque chose de plus nonchalant, comme manger des mochi. Là, j’avais l’impression que c’était moi, le condamné à mort. Aller faire la tournée des sept divinités du bonheur ? J’aurais mieux fait de m’abstenir !
Un robot m’avait localisée, avait établi le lien avec un de ses clients, robot également, et lui avait confié ma disposition à terminer ce repas avec un mochi au thé vert fourré aux haricots rouges.
This word in other languages
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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