mooning
\mu.niŋ\
The verdict
“mooning” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de montrer ses fesses nues en baissant son pantalon ou en relevant sa jupe, et en se penchant en avant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mooning · mooning · French
mooning · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mooning |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mu.niŋ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mooning » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mooning is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \mu.niŋ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Action de montrer ses fesses nues en baissant son pantalon ou en relevant sa jupe, et en se penchant en avant.".
No misspelling variants are generated for mooning in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 mooning, spelled M-O-O-N-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Action de montrer ses fesses nues en baissant son pantalon ou en relevant sa jupe, et en se penchant en avant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mooning appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Brando n'était pas en reste dans la déconne. Son jeu favori, pratiquer le « Mooning », c'est-à-dire exhiber son cul à travers les vitres du véhicule qui le transportait dans les rues de New York. Ou se retourner et présenter ses fesses aux responsables de la production […].
Quant à l'efficacité du mooning (une jupe haut soulevée par derrière en des temps qui ignorent la culotte pour les femmes), on en sait l'importance dans la hiérarchie des injures grâce à la lecture des archives judiciaires et des caricatures […].
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.