moquette
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#21,695
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
10
similar word pairs
moquette is aFrenchnoun. It means: Étoffe à chaîne et à trame de fil, veloutée en laine, dont on fait des tapis. Pronounced \mɔ.kɛt\. Often confused with muette and mouette.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | moquette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɔ.kɛt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #21,695 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for moquette is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɔ.kɛt\. Corpus data places it at rank #21,695 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 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 moquette, with forms such as "mmoquette", "moqeutte", and "moqquette". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "muette", "mouette", "mouettes", 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 moquette, spelled M-O-Q-U-E-T-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Étoffe à chaîne et à trame de fil, veloutée en laine, dont on fait des tapis.
- 2Revêtement décoratif en moquette qui a pour but de recouvrir les surfaces, généralement les sols.
- 3Pilosité fournie sur le torse de certains hommes.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: mmoquette,moqeutte,moqquette,moquete,moquetet,moqutete,mouqette,mqouette,omquette
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for moquette
Misspelling Variants of "moquette"
Frequency rank: #21,695 in French
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