moucher
\mu.ʃe\
The verdict
“moucher” is uncommon French (frequency #50,980 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,980
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Souffler par les narines pour en faire sortir les mucosités.
Corpus desk
Index FR-moucher · moucher · French
moucher · rank #50,980 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,980
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH morveux
Nearest frequency peer: morveux (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « moucher »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- monogamie
monogamie
49,024 corpus weight
- mormon
mormon
49,023 corpus weight
- morveux
morveux
49,022 corpus weight
- moucher
moucher
49,021 corpus weight
- moulée
moulée
49,020 corpus weight
- mountains
mountains
49,019 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « moucher » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | moucher |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \mu.ʃe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #50,980 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « moucher » en français
Rare enough to double-check
moucher is uncommon French at frequency #50,980 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \mu.ʃe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 6 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for moucher in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is moucher, spelled M-O-U-C-H-E-R.
Definition
- 1Souffler par les narines pour en faire sortir les mucosités.
- 2Ôter le bout du lumignon d’une chandelle, d’une bougie, d’une lampe, lorsqu’il empêche celle-ci de bien éclairer.
- 3Éteindre une chandelle en pinçant la flamme.
- 4Dire son fait à quelqu’un.
- 5Se faire tuer, en particulier par un coup de feu.
- 6Faire taire quelqu’un.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how moucher appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il toussait, se raclait la gorge, se mouchait en trompette, […]
Les deux se sont rapprochées de moi pour me convertir, mais un sale gamin, habillé en petit poulbot, est venu se faire moucher par sa maman.
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).