mossi
\mɔ.si\
The verdict
“mossi” is uncommon French (frequency #66,126 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,126
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à une ethnie d’Afrique de l'Ouest, principalement du Burkina Faso.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mossi · mossi · French
mossi · rank #66,126 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,126
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH morphologique…
Nearest frequency peer: morphologiquement (-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 « mossi »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- montjoie
montjoie
33,878 corpus weight
- morde
morde
33,877 corpus weight
- morphologiq…
morphologiquement
33,876 corpus weight
- mossi
mossi
33,875 corpus weight
- motels
motels
33,874 corpus weight
- motocyclett…
motocyclettes
33,873 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mossi » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mossi |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \mɔ.si\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #66,126 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mossi » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mossi is uncommon French at frequency #66,126 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \mɔ.si\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Relatif à une ethnie d’Afrique de l'Ouest, principalement du Burkina Faso.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for mossi, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is mossi, spelled M-O-S-S-I.
Definition
- 1Relatif à une ethnie d’Afrique de l'Ouest, principalement du Burkina Faso.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mossi appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ils prennent la route pour Ouahigouya, capitale du royaume mossi du Yatenga, et s’arrêtent en chemin pour faire des relevés de terrain – tâche dévolue à Françoise plus particulièrement –, mais aussi pour poser des questions aux habitants rencontrés dans les villages sur leur éventuelle migration vers d’autres territoires en cas de construction d’un barrag…
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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