molosses
\mɔ.lɔs\
The verdict
“molosses” is uncommon French (frequency #81,349 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,349
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de molosse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-molosses · molosses · French
molosses · rank #81,349 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,349
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH molinaro
Nearest frequency peer: molinaro (-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 « molosses »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mocheté
mocheté
18,655 corpus weight
- modou
modou
18,654 corpus weight
- molinaro
molinaro
18,653 corpus weight
- molosses
molosses
18,652 corpus weight
- moman
moman
18,651 corpus weight
- Montagnac
Montagnac
18,650 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « molosses » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | molosses |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɔ.lɔs\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #81,349 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « molosses » en français
Rare enough to double-check
molosses is uncommon French at frequency #81,349 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mɔ.lɔs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de molosse.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for molosses, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is molosses, spelled M-O-L-O-S-S-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de molosse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how molosses appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le bruit de cette chute souleva une tempête de jappements féroces parmi tous les dogues, mâtins et molosses qui faisaient ripaille à la ronde.
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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