Moluques
\mɔ.lyk\
The verdict
“Moluques” is uncommon French (frequency #68,473 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,473
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Archipel de l’Est de l’Indonésie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-moluques · Moluques · French
Moluques · rank #68,473 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,473
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH modernisés
Nearest frequency peer: modernisés (-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 « Moluques »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ministry
ministry
31,531 corpus weight
- Mirecourt
Mirecourt
31,530 corpus weight
- modernisés
modernisés
31,529 corpus weight
- Moluques
Moluques
31,528 corpus weight
- monocycle
monocycle
31,527 corpus weight
- Montréalais…
Montréalaises
31,526 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Moluques » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Moluques |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \mɔ.lyk\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #68,473 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Moluques » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Moluques is uncommon French at frequency #68,473 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \mɔ.lyk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Archipel de l’Est de l’Indonésie.".
Moluques has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 Moluques, spelled M-O-L-U-Q-U-E-S.
Definition
- 1Archipel de l’Est de l’Indonésie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Moluques appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On pêche cet amphiprion dans la mer des Indes orientales, près des Moluques et sur la côte de Coromandel.
En Indonésie, le tremblement de terre a déclenché la panique et poussé la population à évacuer les bâtiments dans le sud-ouest de l'archipel des Moluques, selon l'agence nationale de gestion des situations d'urgence.
This word in other languages
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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