moelle épinière
\mwa.l‿e.pi.njɛʁ\
The verdict
“moelle épinière” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Partie du système nerveux central se trouvant sous le tronc cérébral et contenue dans les vertèbres formant la colonne vertébrale.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | moelle épinière |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mwa.l‿e.pi.njɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “moelle épinière” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
moelle épinière is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \mwa.l‿e.pi.njɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Partie du système nerveux central se trouvant sous le tronc cérébral et contenue dans les vertèbres formant la colonne vertébrale.".
moelle épinière doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is moelle épinière, spelled M-O-E-L-L-E- -É-P-I-N-I-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Partie du système nerveux central se trouvant sous le tronc cérébral et contenue dans les vertèbres formant la colonne vertébrale.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “moelle épinière”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is M-O-E-L-L-E- -É-P-I-N-I-È-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \mwa.l‿e.pi.njɛʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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.