moignon
\mo.ɲɔ̃\
The verdict
“moignon” is uncommon French (frequency #67,705 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,705
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ce qui reste d’un bras, d’une jambe, d’une cuisse coupée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-moignon · moignon · French
moignon · rank #67,705 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,705
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH MOBA
Nearest frequency peer: MOBA (-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 « moignon »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Mitose
Mitose
32,299 corpus weight
- MOBA
MOBA
32,297 corpus weight
- moignon
moignon
32,296 corpus weight
- mola
mola
32,295 corpus weight
- mononucléose
mononucléose
32,294 corpus weight
- montanier
montanier
32,293 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « moignon » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | moignon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mo.ɲɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #67,705 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « moignon » en français
Rare enough to double-check
moignon is uncommon French at frequency #67,705 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mo.ɲɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for moignon in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is moignon, spelled M-O-I-G-N-O-N.
Definition
- 1Ce qui reste d’un bras, d’une jambe, d’une cuisse coupée.
- 2Ce qui reste d’une grosse branche d’arbre qui a été coupée ou brisée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how moignon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je me soulève sur mon coude comme sur un moignon d’aile.
De tous les pays circonvoisins, des campagnes et des villes, malades et infirmes, paralytiques, culs-de-jatte et pieds-bots accouraient dans des carrioles, dans des calèches, sur des ânes, sur leurs moignons calleux.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).