mol
\mɔl\
The verdict
“mol” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #28,654) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #28,654
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin singulier de mou devant une voyelle ou un h muet, et plus rarement devant une consonne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mol · mol · French
mol · rank #28,654 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,654
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Mirabeau
Nearest frequency peer: Mirabeau (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « mol »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- mir
mir
71,349 corpus weight
- Mirabeau
Mirabeau
71,348 corpus weight
- mol
mol
71,347 corpus weight
- monoxyde
monoxyde
71,346 corpus weight
- moquait
moquait
71,345 corpus weight
- Morvan
Morvan
71,343 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « mol » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mol |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \mɔl\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #28,654 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « mol »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for mol is neighbouring look-alikes ("MR", "my", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced \mɔl\. Frequency #28,654 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Gloss: "Masculin singulier de mou devant une voyelle ou un h muet, et plus rarement devant une consonne.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for mol, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "MR", "my", "ms", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is mol, spelled M-O-L.
Definition
- 1Masculin singulier de mou devant une voyelle ou un h muet, et plus rarement devant une consonne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mol appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Que voilà un mol oreiller !
Il avait un mol et flasque membre.
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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