moldu
\mɔl.dy\
The verdict
“moldu” is uncommon French (frequency #63,179 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,179
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne ne possédant pas de pouvoirs magiques.
Corpus desk
Index FR-moldu · moldu · French
moldu · rank #63,179 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,179
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH modélisations
Nearest frequency peer: modélisations (-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 « moldu »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- MNS
MNS
36,825 corpus weight
- modos
modos
36,824 corpus weight
- modélisatio…
modélisations
36,823 corpus weight
- moldu
moldu
36,822 corpus weight
- montreraient
montreraient
36,821 corpus weight
- mordante
mordante
36,819 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « moldu » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | moldu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɔl.dy\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #63,179 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « moldu » en français
Rare enough to double-check
moldu is uncommon French at frequency #63,179 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mɔl.dy\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Personne ne possédant pas de pouvoirs magiques.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for moldu in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 moldu, spelled M-O-L-D-U.
Definition
- 1Personne ne possédant pas de pouvoirs magiques.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how moldu appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Chaque année, c’est pareil ! La gare est pleine de moldus !
Avis aux Moldus, fans de la saga Harry Potter : l’école de magie bretonne du Rocher-Portail, située à Maen Roch (Ille-et-Vilaine), rouvre ses portes pour la saison estivale dès aujourd’hui
Synonyms
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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