moquais
\mɔ.kɛ\
The verdict
“moquais” is uncommon French (frequency #51,614 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,614
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de moquer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-moquais · moquais · French
moquais · rank #51,614 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,614
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Mombasa
Nearest frequency peer: Mombasa (-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 « moquais »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mirador
mirador
48,390 corpus weight
- Mombasa
Mombasa
48,388 corpus weight
- moquais
moquais
48,387 corpus weight
- moulante
moulante
48,386 corpus weight
- mourras
mourras
48,385 corpus weight
- moustiquaire
moustiquaire
48,384 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « moquais » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | moquais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \mɔ.kɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #51,614 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « moquais » en français
Rare enough to double-check
moquais is uncommon French at frequency #51,614 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \mɔ.kɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for moquais, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is moquais, spelled M-O-Q-U-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de moquer.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de moquer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how moquais appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sûrement qu’elle s’est d’abord intéressée à moi parce qu'on m’appelait Bohem et que je vivais dans une roulotte, mais moi je me moquais de savoir le pourquoi du comment.
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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