Moir
The verdict
“Moir” is uncommon French (frequency #87,853 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,853
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-moir · Moir · French
Moir · rank #87,853 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,853
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH modulant
Nearest frequency peer: modulant (-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 « Moir »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- minoré
minoré
12,152 corpus weight
- miserable
miserable
12,151 corpus weight
- modulant
modulant
12,149 corpus weight
- Moir
Moir
12,148 corpus weight
- monocoques
monocoques
12,146 corpus weight
- monterai
monterai
12,145 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Moir » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Moir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #87,853 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Moir » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Moir is uncommon French at frequency #87,853 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Moir doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Moir, spelled M-O-I-R.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Moir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« Il est très difficile de décrypter soi-même ses rêves, parce qu’on a tendance à les interpréter au premier degré », estime Tristan-Frédéric Moir.
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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