Moscovie
\mɔs.kɔ.vi\
The verdict
“Moscovie” is uncommon French (frequency #86,941 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,941
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Région de la ville de Moscou.
Corpus desk
Index FR-moscovie · Moscovie · French
Moscovie · rank #86,941 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,941
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH morro
Nearest frequency peer: morro (-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 « Moscovie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- montrerez
montrerez
13,064 corpus weight
- morro
morro
13,061 corpus weight
- Moscovie
Moscovie
13,060 corpus weight
- motorcycle
motorcycle
13,059 corpus weight
- mousquetons
mousquetons
13,058 corpus weight
- multicoques
multicoques
13,057 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Moscovie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Moscovie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \mɔs.kɔ.vi\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #86,941 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Moscovie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Moscovie is uncommon French at frequency #86,941 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \mɔs.kɔ.vi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Région de la ville de Moscou.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Moscovie in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Moscovie, spelled M-O-S-C-O-V-I-E.
Definition
- 1Région de la ville de Moscou.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Moscovie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Enfermées dans le terem, gynécée tatar ou byzantin, les tsarines et les tsarevnas laissaient les tsars à la grossièreté de leur sexe. La Moscovie n’eut ni châteaux ni palais ; le Kremlin n’était qu’une forteresse et un couvent, […].
This word in other languages
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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