mosellan
\mɔ.zɛ.lɑ̃\
The verdict
“mosellan” is uncommon French (frequency #75,920 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,920
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à la Moselle ; originaire de ce département.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mosellan · mosellan · French
mosellan · rank #75,920 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,920
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mortis
Nearest frequency peer: mortis (-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 « mosellan »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Montrose
Montrose
24,084 corpus weight
- morena
morena
24,083 corpus weight
- mortis
mortis
24,082 corpus weight
- mosellan
mosellan
24,081 corpus weight
- motet
motet
24,080 corpus weight
- motivera
motivera
24,079 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mosellan » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mosellan |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \mɔ.zɛ.lɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #75,920 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mosellan » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mosellan is uncommon French at frequency #75,920 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \mɔ.zɛ.lɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Relatif à la Moselle ; originaire de ce département.".
Zero misspellings are on record for mosellan in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is mosellan, spelled M-O-S-E-L-L-A-N.
Definition
- 1Relatif à la Moselle ; originaire de ce département.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mosellan appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le pays mosellan.
Autrement dit, la loi Florange votée le 29 mars 2014, au lendemain de la fermeture des hauts-fourneaux mosellans.
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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