mouais
\mwɛ\
The verdict
“mouais” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,950. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,950
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 16
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Marque un « oui » dubitatif ou insatisfait.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mouais · mouais · French
mouais · rank #16,950 · 7 variants · 16 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,950
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH monumentale
Nearest frequency peer: monumentale (-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 « mouais »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- modélisation
modélisation
83,054 corpus weight
- mona
mona
83,053 corpus weight
- monumentale
monumentale
83,052 corpus weight
- mouais
mouais
83,051 corpus weight
- MW
MW
83,050 corpus weight
- méchanceté
méchanceté
83,049 corpus weight
What this shows « mouais » 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 | mouais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \mwɛ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #16,950 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « mouais »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around mouais (IPA \mwɛ\), anadverb. Corpus frequency is #16,950 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for mouais, with forms such as "mmouais", "moauis", and "mouaiss". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 16 confusable-pair relationships, "mous", "munis", "mourir", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is mouais, spelled M-O-U-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Marque un « oui » dubitatif ou insatisfait.
- 2Marque l’affirmatif, forcé ou contraint, ou tout simplement une affirmation de pratique, et non de principe, par « obligation ».
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mouais appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À partir de là, reste plus qu’à choisir, et c’est là que ça commence : celle-là, celle-là, pas celle-là, celle-là, mouais, beuh…, celle-là, celle-là…
Je reviens à la charge avec mon papier rose rempli en noir. — Mouais. Pourquoi vous venez aux USA ? — Tourisme. — Mouais, vous pouvez le prouver ? — Ben, j'ai un sac à dos. — Mouais, mais pourquoi vous venez aux USA ? Ça va pas être aussi simple que prévu.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mmouais
- moauis
- mouaiss
- mouasi
- mouias
- muoais
- omuais
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mouais - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).