mosca
\ˈmus.kə\
The verdict
“mosca” is uncommon French (frequency #70,041 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,041
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mouche.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mosca · mosca · French
mosca · rank #70,041 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,041
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH morpion
Nearest frequency peer: morpion (-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 « mosca »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Montbrun
Montbrun
29,964 corpus weight
- mordait
mordait
29,962 corpus weight
- morpion
morpion
29,961 corpus weight
- mosca
mosca
29,960 corpus weight
- MSS
MSS
29,958 corpus weight
- Mélisande
Mélisande
29,956 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mosca » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mosca |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈmus.kə\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #70,041 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mosca » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mosca is uncommon French at frequency #70,041 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈmus.kə\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Mouche.".
mosca doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, 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 is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is mosca, spelled M-O-S-C-A.
Definition
- 1Mouche.
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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