moiteur
\mwa.tœʁ\
The verdict
“moiteur” is uncommon French (frequency #75,912 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,912
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Caractère de ce qui est moite.
Corpus desk
Index FR-moiteur · moiteur · French
moiteur · rank #75,912 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,912
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH monographique
Nearest frequency peer: monographique (+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 « moiteur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mixant
mixant
24,093 corpus weight
- mnémotechni…
mnémotechnique
24,091 corpus weight
- moiteur
moiteur
24,089 corpus weight
- monographiq…
monographique
24,088 corpus weight
- monophasé
monophasé
24,087 corpus weight
- montagnardes
montagnardes
24,086 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « moiteur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | moiteur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mwa.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #75,912 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « moiteur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
moiteur is uncommon French at frequency #75,912 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mwa.tœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for moiteur, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, 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, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is moiteur, spelled M-O-I-T-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Caractère de ce qui est moite.
- 2Légère humidité, légère transpiration.
- 3Tiédeur agréable.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how moiteur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
l’ombre y prenait une chaleur renfermée de fournaise, une moiteur d’humidité, une sueur pestilentielle.
Il a une petite moiteur aux mains.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).