molasse
\mɔ.las\
The verdict
“molasse” is uncommon French (frequency #78,652 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,652
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Grès calcaire ou argileux, blanc, rouge ou verdâtre, durcissant à l’air, que l’on utilise comme pierre à bâtir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-molasse · molasse · French
molasse · rank #78,652 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,652
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Moffatt
Nearest frequency peer: Moffatt (-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 « molasse »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- modems
modems
21,352 corpus weight
- modifiez
modifiez
21,351 corpus weight
- Moffatt
Moffatt
21,350 corpus weight
- molasse
molasse
21,349 corpus weight
- morphologies
morphologies
21,348 corpus weight
- moudjahidin…
moudjahidines
21,347 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « molasse » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | molasse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɔ.las\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #78,652 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « molasse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
molasse is uncommon French at frequency #78,652 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mɔ.las\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for molasse in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is molasse, spelled M-O-L-A-S-S-E.
Definition
- 1Grès calcaire ou argileux, blanc, rouge ou verdâtre, durcissant à l’air, que l’on utilise comme pierre à bâtir.
- 2Veine terreuse qui constitue un défaut dans la pierre à bâtir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how molasse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les roches tertiaires forment d’excellentes pierres à bâtir. En Suisse, la plupart des villes sont bâties avec un grès tertiaire, facile à tailler au moment de son extraction, qui durcit ensuite et qu’on appelle molasse.
L’ensemble a la couleur de l’argile sèche. C’est une sorte de molasse roussâtre rongée par les pluies, travaillée par le vent, usée par les pieds des hommes.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).