moelleux
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#23,939
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
moelleux is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui est rempli de moelle. Pronounced \mwa.lø\. Often confused with moelle.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | moelleux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \mwa.lø\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #23,939 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for moelleux is 8 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mwa.lø\. Corpus data places it at rank #23,939 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for moelleux, with forms such as "meolleux", "mmoelleux", and "moelelux". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "moelle", 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 moelleux, spelled M-O-E-L-L-E-U-X, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui est rempli de moelle.
- 2Qui joint la douceur à la force et qui flatte agréablement le goût, qui n’a rien d’aigre ni de dur, qui a du corps et qui est souple, doux à la main.
- 3Qualifie un pinceau dont les touches sont larges, grasses et bien fondues, et ces touches elles-mêmes.
- 4Qualifie des contours souples et gracieux.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: meolleux,mmoelleux,moelelux,moeleux,moelleuxx,moellexu,moelluex,moleleux,omelleux
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for moelleux
Misspelling Variants of "moelleux"
Frequency rank: #23,939 in French
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