mohair
\mɔ.ɛʁ\
The verdict
“mohair” is uncommon French (frequency #89,937 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,937
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Laine provenant du poil des chèvres de race angora et permettant la confection d’étoffes soyeuses et légères.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mohair · mohair · French
mohair · rank #89,937 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,937
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH moal
Nearest frequency peer: moal (-2 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 « mohair »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mixtapes
mixtapes
10,068 corpus weight
- mixée
mixée
10,067 corpus weight
- moal
moal
10,066 corpus weight
- mohair
mohair
10,064 corpus weight
- moko
moko
10,062 corpus weight
- Monestier
Monestier
10,061 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mohair » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mohair |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɔ.ɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #89,937 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mohair » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mohair is uncommon French at frequency #89,937 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mɔ.ɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
mohair has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 mohair, spelled M-O-H-A-I-R.
Definition
- 1Laine provenant du poil des chèvres de race angora et permettant la confection d’étoffes soyeuses et légères.
- 2Tissu de mohair.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mohair appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le mohair doit être peu manié en préparation, un trop grand nombre de passages aux diverses machines lui enlèvent son brillant.
Le Bonheur, moins artiste, soignait l’étoffe, vantait ses alpagas et ses mohairs, ses sergés et ses taffetas cuits.
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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