mois
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#184
in French word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
mois is aFrenchnoun. It means: Chacune des douze parties de l’année, dont chacune contient trente ou trente et un jours, excepté la seconde (février), qui est de vingt-huit jours dans les années ordinaires, et de vingt-neuf dans... Pronounced \mwa\. It ranks #184 in French word frequency. Often confused with ms and mon.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mois |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mwa\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #184 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for mois is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mwa\. Corpus data places it at rank #184 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 4 documented wrong-spelling variants for mois, with forms such as "mios", "mmois", and "moiss". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ms", "mon", "mot", 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 mois, spelled M-O-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Chacune des douze parties de l’année, dont chacune contient trente ou trente et un jours, excepté la seconde (février), qui est de vingt-huit jours dans les années ordinaires, et de vingt-neuf dans les années bissextiles.
- 2Espace de temps qui s’écoule depuis un jour quelconque jusqu’au quantième correspondant du mois suivant. Espace de trente jours environ.
- 3Espace de temps qui s’écoule depuis un jour quelconque jusqu’au quantième correspondant du mois suivant. Espace de trente jours environ.
- 4Mensualité en parlant de location, de leçons, de travail, etc.
- 5Menstrues.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: mios,mmois,moiss,mosi
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for mois
Misspelling Variants of "mois"
Frequency rank: #184 in French
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Nearby French words
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