moellon
\mwa.lɔ̃\
The verdict
“moellon” is uncommon French (frequency #97,173 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,173
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pierre de construction très maniable par son poids et sa forme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-moellon · moellon · French
moellon · rank #97,173 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,173
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH modificateur
Nearest frequency peer: modificateur (-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 « moellon »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- minant
minant
2,833 corpus weight
- mocassin
mocassin
2,830 corpus weight
- modificateur
modificateur
2,829 corpus weight
- moellon
moellon
2,828 corpus weight
- Moncontour
Moncontour
2,826 corpus weight
- Moraves
Moraves
2,824 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « moellon » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | moellon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mwa.lɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #97,173 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « moellon » en français
Rare enough to double-check
moellon is uncommon French at frequency #97,173 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mwa.lɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for moellon, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is moellon, spelled M-O-E-L-L-O-N.
Definition
- 1Pierre de construction très maniable par son poids et sa forme.
- 2Pierre de grosseur intermédiaire entre le bloc et le caillou.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how moellon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sur la rue, la maison présentait cette façade de moellons ravalée en plâtre, ondée par le temps et rayée par le crochet du maçon de manière à figurer des pierres de taille.
Ces moellons, qui font de grands carrés longs de cinquante à soixante pieds, haut de six ou huit, c'est le futur Paris qu'on arrache de terre.
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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