moldaves
\mɔl.dav\
The verdict
“moldaves” is uncommon French (frequency #55,446 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,446
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de moldave.
Corpus desk
Index FR-moldaves · moldaves · French
moldaves · rank #55,446 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,446
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH monogame
Nearest frequency peer: monogame (+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 « moldaves »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Minos
Minos
44,559 corpus weight
- modernistes
modernistes
44,557 corpus weight
- moldaves
moldaves
44,555 corpus weight
- monogame
monogame
44,554 corpus weight
- monopolise
monopolise
44,553 corpus weight
- Montignac
Montignac
44,552 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « moldaves » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | moldaves |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \mɔl.dav\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #55,446 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « moldaves » en français
Rare enough to double-check
moldaves is uncommon French at frequency #55,446 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \mɔl.dav\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de moldave.".
Zero misspellings are on record for moldaves in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is moldaves, spelled M-O-L-D-A-V-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de moldave.
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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