Mossoul
\mɔ.sul\
The verdict
“Mossoul” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,791. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,791
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Capitale de la province de Ninawa en Iraq.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mossoul · Mossoul · French
Mossoul · rank #20,791 · 8 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,791
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH montraient
Nearest frequency peer: montraient (-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 « Mossoul »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- minecraft
minecraft
79,213 corpus weight
- monologue
monologue
79,212 corpus weight
- montraient
montraient
79,211 corpus weight
- Mossoul
Mossoul
79,210 corpus weight
- médaillon
médaillon
79,209 corpus weight
- médaillé
médaillé
79,208 corpus weight
What this shows « Mossoul » 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 | Mossoul |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \mɔ.sul\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #20,791 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Mossoul »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Mossoul (IPA \mɔ.sul\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #20,791 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Capitale de la province de Ninawa en Iraq.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Mossoul, with forms such as "mmossoul", "mososul", and "mosoul". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Moscou", "Massoud", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Mossoul, spelled M-O-S-S-O-U-L.
Definition
- 1Capitale de la province de Ninawa en Iraq.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Mossoul appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
De ces différents points de vue, la fin des opérations contre l'EI ne signifiera pas la fin des hostilités au Moyen-Orient et le devenir de Mossoul, des après les premiers jours de sa libération, pourrait servir d'indicateur d'évolution de la situation.
La bataille de Mossoul, métropole irakienne de 2 millions d'habitants, qui avait duré près d'un an en 2016-2017, est souvent comparée à celle de Gaza, dont la population totale est similaire.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mmossoul
- mososul
- mosoul
- mossolu
- mossoull
- mossuol
- msosoul
- omssoul
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Mossoul - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).