mollet
\mɔ.lɛ\
The verdict
“mollet” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,603. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,603
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mou, faible, sans force.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mollet · mollet · French
mollet · rank #19,603 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,603
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mill
Nearest frequency peer: mill (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « mollet »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- migraine
migraine
80,401 corpus weight
- mill
mill
80,399 corpus weight
- mollet
mollet
80,398 corpus weight
- monumental
monumental
80,397 corpus weight
- mourra
mourra
80,396 corpus weight
- mériterait
mériterait
80,395 corpus weight
What this shows « mollet » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mollet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \mɔ.lɛ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #19,603 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « mollet »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around mollet (IPA \mɔ.lɛ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #19,603 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for mollet, with forms such as "mlolet", "mmollet", and "molelt". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "moule", "molly", "monet", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is mollet, spelled M-O-L-L-E-T.
Definition
- 1Mou, faible, sans force.
- 2Qui a une mollesse agréable et douce au toucher.
- 3Entre cru et dur, en parlant de la cuisson de l’œuf.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mollet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Marie Martin : Oh oh ! vous n’êtes pas bien mon père… Le moine : Non pas tellement, j’ai les jambes tout mollettes. Marie Martin : Attendez, vous allez boire un verre d’arquebuse. Le moine : Merci, ça me les rendra pour me remettre en route.
Faites dessécher vos Poires sur le feu : quand elles sont bien mollettes, tirez-les, mettez-les dans de l’eau fraiche […]
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mlolet
- mmollet
- molelt
- molet
- mollett
- mollte
- omllet
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mollet - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).