mollesse
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#48,053
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
mollesse is aFrenchnoun. It means: État de ce qui est mou. Pronounced \mɔ.lɛs\. Often confused with mollets and molles.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mollesse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɔ.lɛs\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #48,053 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for mollesse is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɔ.lɛs\. Corpus data places it at rank #48,053 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 9 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 mollesse, with forms such as "mlolesse", "mmollesse", and "molelsse". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "mollets", "molles", 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 mollesse, spelled M-O-L-L-E-S-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1État de ce qui est mou.
- 2Température douce et molle, en parlant du climat.
- 3Complexion, tempérament mou, en parlant des personnes.
- 4L’imitation vraie de la flexibilité, de la morbidesse des chairs.
- 5Défaut de fermeté dans le maniement du pinceau.
- 6Manque de vigueur et de fermeté dans le caractère, dans la conduite, dans les mœurs.
- 7Excès d’indulgence.
- 8Délicatesse d’une vie efféminée.
- 9Manque de fermeté.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: mlolesse,mmollesse,molelsse,molesse,mollese,molleses,mollsese,omllesse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "mollesse"
Frequency rank: #48,053 in French
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