molosse
\mɔ.lɔs\
The verdict
“molosse” is uncommon French (frequency #70,035 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,035
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif aux Molosses, un peuple de la Grèce antique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-molosse · molosse · French
molosse · rank #70,035 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,035
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Montagu
Nearest frequency peer: Montagu (+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 « molosse »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- moda
moda
29,970 corpus weight
- moindrement
moindrement
29,969 corpus weight
- molosse
molosse
29,966 corpus weight
- Montagu
Montagu
29,965 corpus weight
- Montbrun
Montbrun
29,964 corpus weight
- mordait
mordait
29,962 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « molosse » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | molosse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \mɔ.lɔs\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #70,035 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « molosse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
molosse is uncommon French at frequency #70,035 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \mɔ.lɔs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for molosse in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is molosse, spelled M-O-L-O-S-S-E.
Definition
- 1Relatif aux Molosses, un peuple de la Grèce antique.
- 2Dans un contexte antique, qualifie un chien de garde.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how molosse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le plus célèbre membre de la dynastie molosse fut Pyrrhus Ier, un cousin d’Alexandre.
Un chien molosse.
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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