mosaïque
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#14,515
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
mosaïque is aFrenchnoun. It means: Assemblage de morceaux de faïence représentant un motif artistique. Pronounced \mɔ.za.ik\. Often confused with musique and mystique.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mosaïque |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɔ.za.ik\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #14,515 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for mosaïque is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɔ.za.ik\. Corpus data places it at rank #14,515 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for mosaïque, with forms such as "mmosaïque", "moasïque", and "mosaqïue". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "musique", "mystique", "moustique", 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 mosaïque, spelled M-O-S-A-Ï-Q-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Assemblage de morceaux de faïence représentant un motif artistique.
- 2Les abacules, les petits cubes qui la composent.
- 3Assemblage de choses qui se distinguent à la vue.
- 4Zone d’une image ayant une très faible résolution afin de cacher le contenu exact.
- 5Maladie génétique caractérisée par le fait qu’un individu ait à la fois des cellules saines et des cellules présentant une anomalie génétique.
- 6Agencement spatial de petites unités ou zones écologiquement distinctes (communautés végétales, habitats, micro-habitats) formant un ensemble hétérogène à l’échelle d’un paysage ou d’un écosystème.
- 7Mosaïque photographique : assemblage d’images photographiques (par exemple issues d'un scanneur) ou radar, ayant subi un traitement convenable pour assurer un bon raccord géométrique, et le cas échéant aussi un traitement radiométrique, de ces images.
- 8Symptômes de maladies virales.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: mmosaïque,moasïque,mosaqïue,mosaïqeu,mosaïqque,mosaïuqe,mossaïque,mosïaque,msoaïque,omsaïque
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for mosaïque
Misspelling Variants of "mosaïque"
Frequency rank: #14,515 in French
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