moonwalk
\mun.wok\
The verdict
“moonwalk” is uncommon French (frequency #87,857 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,857
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pas de danse glissé de la breakdance, popularisé par Michael Jackson.
Corpus desk
Index FR-moonwalk · moonwalk · French
moonwalk · rank #87,857 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,857
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH monterai
Nearest frequency peer: monterai (-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 « moonwalk »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Moir
Moir
12,148 corpus weight
- monocoques
monocoques
12,146 corpus weight
- monterai
monterai
12,145 corpus weight
- moonwalk
moonwalk
12,144 corpus weight
- moratoires
moratoires
12,143 corpus weight
- MPSI
MPSI
12,140 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « moonwalk » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | moonwalk |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mun.wok\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #87,857 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « moonwalk » en français
Rare enough to double-check
moonwalk is uncommon French at frequency #87,857 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mun.wok\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pas de danse glissé de la breakdance, popularisé par Michael Jackson.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for moonwalk, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is moonwalk, spelled M-O-O-N-W-A-L-K.
Definition
- 1Pas de danse glissé de la breakdance, popularisé par Michael Jackson.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how moonwalk appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Grâce à ses chorégraphies inspirées de Michael Jackson qui mêlent moonwalks en série et jeux de mime, cet homme caoutchouc a su s’assurer une place parmi les 16 finalistes (ils étaient 70.000 au départ).
Le couvre-chef porté par Michael Jackson quand il fit son premier moonwalk (en 1983) sera mis aux enchères le 26 septembre à Paris, ont annoncé, mercredi, Artpèges et Lemon Auction, organisatrices de cette vente.
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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