moose
\ˈmoː.zə\
The verdict
“moose” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #45,180. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #45,180
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent I de moosen.
Corpus desk
Index FR-moose · moose · French
moose · rank #45,180 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #45,180
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH moo
Nearest frequency peer: moo (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « moose »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- monolithique
monolithique
54,824 corpus weight
- month
month
54,823 corpus weight
- moo
moo
54,822 corpus weight
- moose
moose
54,821 corpus weight
- moralisateur
moralisateur
54,820 corpus weight
- Moravie
Moravie
54,819 corpus weight
What this shows « moose » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | moose |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈmoː.zə\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #45,180 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « moose »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around moose (IPA \ˈmoː.zə\), averb. Corpus frequency is #45,180 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent I de moosen.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for moose, with forms such as "mmoose", "mooes", and "moosse". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mos", "mots", "more", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is moose, spelled M-O-O-S-E.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent I de moosen.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mmoose
- mooes
- moosse
- mose
- mosoe
- omose
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of moose - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "moose", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).