moissonneuse
\mwa.sɔ.nøz\
The verdict
“moissonneuse” is uncommon French (frequency #60,213 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,213
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celle qui moissonne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-moissonneuse · moissonneuse · French
moissonneuse · rank #60,213 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,213
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH moisis
Nearest frequency peer: moisis (-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 « moissonneuse »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- modulations
modulations
39,791 corpus weight
- Mohawks
Mohawks
39,790 corpus weight
- moisis
moisis
39,789 corpus weight
- moissonneuse
moissonneuse
39,788 corpus weight
- Molières
Molières
39,787 corpus weight
- mong
mong
39,785 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « moissonneuse » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | moissonneuse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mwa.sɔ.nøz\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #60,213 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « moissonneuse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
moissonneuse is uncommon French at frequency #60,213 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mwa.sɔ.nøz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
moissonneuse doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is moissonneuse, spelled M-O-I-S-S-O-N-N-E-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1Celle qui moissonne.
- 2Machine qui sert à moissonner le blé et les autres céréales.
- 3Synonyme de noctuelle des moissons.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how moissonneuse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
MOISSONNEUR. Celui qui coupe le bled ; & on nomme Moissonneuse, celle qui ramasse le bled coupé, le met en gerbes & les lie.
La moissonneuse embrasse de la main gauche une poignée d’épis ; elle place cette poignée dans la courbure de sa faucille, assez au-dessous de sa main, & l’abat en coupant la poignée d’un mouvement circulaire de sa faucille.
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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