Moscow
The verdict
“Moscow” is uncommon French (frequency #60,221 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,221
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Moscou, capitale de la Russie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-moscow · Moscow · French
Moscow · rank #60,221 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,221
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH moraliser
Nearest frequency peer: moraliser (-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 « Moscow »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- monnayer
monnayer
39,784 corpus weight
- Montpetit
Montpetit
39,782 corpus weight
- moraliser
moraliser
39,781 corpus weight
- Moscow
Moscow
39,780 corpus weight
- mouchards
mouchards
39,779 corpus weight
- moucheron
moucheron
39,778 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Moscow » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Moscow |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #60,221 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Moscow » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Moscow is uncommon French at frequency #60,221 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for Moscow in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Moscow, spelled M-O-S-C-O-W.
Definition
- 1Moscou, capitale de la Russie.
- 2Le gouvernement russe.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Moscow appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Moscow is determined to expand its influence in the Western Balkans, using cyber-warfare at the expense of U.S. and western interests.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).