mou
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#8,739
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
mou is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui cède facilement au toucher, qui reçoit facilement l’impression des autres corps. Pronounced \mu\. It ranks #8,739 in French word frequency. Often confused with MR and my.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mou |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \mu\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #8,739 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for mou is 3 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mu\. Corpus data places it at rank #8,739 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for mou in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "MR", "my", "ms", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is mou, spelled M-O-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui cède facilement au toucher, qui reçoit facilement l’impression des autres corps.
- 2Qui ne tend pas à reprendre la figure que le choc ou la compression leur a fait perdre, en parlant d'un corps.
- 3Qualifie les chairs, les organes qui recouvrent le squelette.
- 4Qualifie un temps, un climat, un air chaud et humide.
- 5Qui a peu de vigueur.
- 6Qui est indolent, inactif, qui manque de résolution, d’application.
- 7Qui est affaibli, énervé par les plaisirs.
- 8Qui annonce ou qui cause la mollesse.
- 9Qui indique une faiblesse d’expression, une insuffisance dans le dessin ou dans la couleur.
- 10Qui subit la mouillure, en parlant des consonnes dans les langues slaves.
- 11Qui a tendence à arriver, à s'écarter du lit du vent.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #8,739 in French
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