moineau
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#32,074
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
moineau is aFrenchnoun. It means: Espèce de petit oiseau passereau, de la famille des passéridés, trapu au bec court et au plumage brunâtre et clair qui fait son nid dans les trous des murailles ou de tout bâtiment. Pronounced \mwa.no\. Often confused with moines and moreau.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | moineau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mwa.no\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #32,074 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for moineau is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mwa.no\. Corpus data places it at rank #32,074 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for moineau, with forms such as "mioneau", "mmoineau", and "moienau". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "moines", "moreau", "morceau", and more, 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 moineau, spelled M-O-I-N-E-A-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Espèce de petit oiseau passereau, de la famille des passéridés, trapu au bec court et au plumage brunâtre et clair qui fait son nid dans les trous des murailles ou de tout bâtiment.
- 2Espèce de petit oiseau passereau, de la famille des passéridés, trapu au bec court et au plumage brunâtre et clair qui fait son nid dans les trous des murailles ou de tout bâtiment.
- 3Petit ouvrage militaire construit dans les fossés d’une place forte et qui permettait aux défenseurs de tirer d’un côté, ou des deux côtés, de l’ouvrage sur les assaillants qui s’y trouvaient.
- 4Individu, type au comportement singulier.
- 5Volant.
- 6Pénis, zizi.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: mioneau,mmoineau,moienau,moinaeu,moineua,moinneau,monieau,omineau
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for moineau
Misspelling Variants of "moineau"
Frequency rank: #32,074 in French
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