mosquée
\mɔs.ke\
The verdict
“mosquée” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,893. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,893
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Édifice où les musulmans s’assemblent pour la prière.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mosquee · mosquée · French
mosquée · rank #5,893 · 10 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,893
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH minorité
Nearest frequency peer: minorité (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « mosquée »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- majeurs
majeurs
94,112 corpus weight
- majoritaire…
majoritairement
94,111 corpus weight
- minorité
minorité
94,109 corpus weight
- mosquée
mosquée
94,108 corpus weight
- médailles
médailles
94,106 corpus weight
- médicament
médicament
94,105 corpus weight
What this shows « mosquée » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mosquée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɔs.ke\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #5,893 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « mosquée »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around mosquée (IPA \mɔs.ke\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,893 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Édifice où les musulmans s’assemblent pour la prière.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for mosquée, with forms such as "mmosquée", "moqsuée", and "mosqquée". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "mosquées", "moqué", "masque", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is mosquée, spelled M-O-S-Q-U-É-E.
Definition
- 1Édifice où les musulmans s’assemblent pour la prière.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mosquée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Celui qui, se trouvant à la Mecque, irait insulter aux cendres de Mahomet, renverser ses autels, et troubler toute une mosquée, se ferait empaler, à coup sûr, et ne serait peut-être pas canonisé.
Près du cimetière musulman, s’élève une mosquée à double dôme, nommée Cheik el Hammal, où l’on reconnaît le droit d’asile à tout homme, même chrétien ou païen, qui, en s’y réfugiant, y a allumé une bougie.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mmosquée
- moqsuée
- mosqquée
- mosquee
- mosqueé
- mosqéue
- mossquée
- mosuqée
- msoquée
- omsquée
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mosquée - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "mosquée", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).