moment
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#177
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
moment is aFrenchnoun. It means: Point dans le temps. Pronounced \mɔ.mɑ̃\. It ranks #177 in French word frequency. Often confused with mont and moyen.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | moment |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɔ.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #177 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for moment is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɔ.mɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #177 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for moment, with forms such as "mmoent", "mmoment", and "moemnt". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mont", "moyen", "monet", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is moment, spelled M-O-M-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Point dans le temps.
- 2Une certaine durée, qui n’est pas considérée comme très longue, mais malgré tout plus longue qu’un instant.
- 3Produit d’une force par le bras du levier, suivant lequel elle agit.
- 4Espérance mathématique, si elle existe, de la variable aléatoire Xʳ, où r est un entier naturel, X étant une variable aléatoire.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: mmoent,mmoment,moemnt,momennt,momentt,mometn,momment,momnet,omment
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for moment
Misspelling Variants of "moment"
Frequency rank: #177 in French
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