mollie

\mɔ.li\

/\mɔ.li\/ verb

The verdict

“mollie” is uncommon French (frequency #98,258 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#98,258
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé féminin singulier de mollir.

Corpus desk

Index FR-mollie · mollie · French

mollie · rank #98,258 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #98,258
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH monade

Nearest frequency peer: monade (+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 « mollie »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mollie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for mollie
PropertyValue
Headwordmollie
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\mɔ.li\
Letters6
Frequency rank#98,258
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « mollie » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).mollietombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « monade » (#98,259), « mobilisera » (#98,256), « Montag » (#98,261). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « mollie » est au #98,258. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

mollie is uncommon French at frequency #98,258 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \mɔ.li\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe passé féminin singulier de mollir.".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for mollie, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is mollie, spelled M-O-L-L-I-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Participe passé féminin singulier de mollir.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how mollie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Dès que la chaîne est rendue à son poste et bien bossée sur l’avant de la bitte : défrapper la caliorne après l’avoir mollie en douceur ; prendre le tour de bitte et terminer l’opération comme il a été dit plus haut.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "mollie"?
"mollie" is spelled M-O-L-L-I-E. The IPA pronunciation is \mɔ.li\.
What does "mollie" mean?
As a verb, "mollie" means: Participe passé féminin singulier de mollir.
How do you pronounce "mollie"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "mollie" is \mɔ.li\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "mollie" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "mollie", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list