moira
\mwa.ʁa\
The verdict
“moira” is uncommon French (frequency #52,842 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,842
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe moirer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-moira · moira · French
moira · rank #52,842 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,842
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Mogador
Nearest frequency peer: Mogador (-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 « moira »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- modal
modal
47,163 corpus weight
- modulaires
modulaires
47,162 corpus weight
- Mogador
Mogador
47,160 corpus weight
- moira
moira
47,159 corpus weight
- Mond
Mond
47,158 corpus weight
- morfondre
morfondre
47,155 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « moira » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | moira |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \mwa.ʁa\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #52,842 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « moira » en français
Rare enough to double-check
moira is uncommon French at frequency #52,842 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \mwa.ʁa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe moirer.".
No misspelling variants are generated for moira in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is moira, spelled M-O-I-R-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe moirer.
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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