mouche à feu
\mu.ʃ‿a fø\
The verdict
“mouche à feu” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Luciole.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mouche-a-feu · mouche à feu · French
mouche à feu · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mouche à feu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mu.ʃ‿a fø\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mouche à feu » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mouche à feu is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \mu.ʃ‿a fø\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Luciole.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for mouche à feu, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is mouche à feu, spelled M-O-U-C-H-E- -À- -F-E-U.
Definition
- 1Luciole.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mouche à feu appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lucioles ailées, les mouches à feu raient la nuit d’un trait lumineux.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.