mouche à viande
\mu.ʃ‿a vjɑ̃d\
The verdict
“mouche à viande” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Espèce de mouche qui adore la viande.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mouche-a-viande · mouche à viande · French
mouche à viande · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-7 7 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 viande |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mu.ʃ‿a vjɑ̃d\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
mouche à viande is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \mu.ʃ‿a vjɑ̃d\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Espèce de mouche qui adore la viande.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for mouche à viande in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is mouche à viande, spelled M-O-U-C-H-E- -À- -V-I-A-N-D-E.
Definition
- 1Espèce de mouche qui adore la viande.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mouche à viande appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] ; Sindbad le Marin l’avait chassé à coups de serviette dans la cour comme une mouche à viande, en le traitant de « petit fumier » ;
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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.