moelle
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#12,621
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
moelle is aFrenchnoun. It means: Moelle osseuse, moelle des os. Pronounced \mwal\. Often confused with mole and moule.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | moelle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mwal\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #12,621 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for moelle is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mwal\. Corpus data places it at rank #12,621 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for moelle, with forms such as "meolle", "mmoelle", and "moele". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mole", "moule", "molle", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is moelle, spelled M-O-E-L-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Moelle osseuse, moelle des os.
- 2Moelle osseuse, moelle des os.
- 3Moelle osseuse, moelle des os.
- 4Moelle osseuse, moelle des os.
- 5Moelle osseuse, moelle des os.
- 6Moelle osseuse, moelle des os.
- 7Moelle épinière.
- 8Cylindre de tissu cellulaire, tendre, qui existe au centre des tiges des plantes.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: meolle,mmoelle,moele,moelel,molele,omelle
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for moelle
Misspelling Variants of "moelle"
Frequency rank: #12,621 in French
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Nearby French words
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