molette
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#36,051
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
14
similar word pairs
molette is aFrenchnoun. It means: Partie de l’éperon qui est ordinairement faite en forme d’étoile et qui sert à piquer le cheval. Pronounced \mɔ.lɛt\. Often confused with Motte and muette.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | molette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɔ.lɛt\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #36,051 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for molette is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɔ.lɛt\. Corpus data places it at rank #36,051 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for molette, with forms such as "mloette", "mmolette", and "moeltte". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 14 confusable-pair relationships, "Motte", "muette", "Moretti", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is molette, spelled M-O-L-E-T-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Partie de l’éperon qui est ordinairement faite en forme d’étoile et qui sert à piquer le cheval.
- 2Petite roue crantée permettant de régler un mécanisme et pouvant se manœuvrer avec le pouce.
- 3Sorte de roulette, de meule, de disque, etc., qui sert à broyer.
- 4Morceau de grès ou morceaux de faïence réunis ou plomb en forme de cône, servant à frotter la superficie du marbre pour le polir.
- 5Sorte de roulette au sommet de la souris servant notamment à faire défiler l'affichage sur un écran d'ordinateur.
- 6Maladie des chevaux, qui consiste en une tumeur molle à la jambe.
- 7Nom de deux cépages de raisin blanc.
- 8Cépage donnant un raisin de petite taille de couleur jaune d'or. Ce cépage est parfois nommé molette de Seysels ou molette blanche.
- 9Selon les régions ce nom est utilisé en tant que synonyme de mondeuse noire ou de mondeuse blanche, ces trois cépages étant des espèces différentes.
- 10Grandes poulies situées au sommet d'un chevalement de mine ou d'un haut fourneau alimenté par skip.
- 11Type de bouton en forme de roue qui permet de passer d'un média audio ou vidéo à un autre.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: mloette,mmolette,moeltte,molete,moletet,mollette,moltete,omlette
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for molette
Misspelling Variants of "molette"
Frequency rank: #36,051 in French
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