moucherolle
French, noun/muʃ.ʁɔl/
moucherolle is spelled M-O-U-C-H-E-R-O-L-L-E (11 letters) and appears about once in every 45 million words in written French, the 212,128th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Moucherolle is a French feminine noun meaning “any of about fifty American species of insectivorous passeriform birds of the family Tyrannidae; tyrant flycatcher” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Oiseau insectivore passériforme à bec très aplati, de la famille des tyrannidés, et dont il existe une…”.
What does moucherolle mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineany of about fifty American species of insectivorous passeriform birds of the family Tyrannidae; tyrant flycatcher
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Oiseau insectivore passériforme à bec très aplati, de la famille des tyrannidés, et dont il existe une cinquantaine d'espèces appartenant à différents genres à la grandeur des Amériques.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of moucherolle
- moucherolles plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce moucherolle?
- /muʃ.ʁɔl/
- \muʃ.ʁɔl\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is moucherolle in French?
moucherolle appears about once in every 45 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).