moucherons
\muʃ.ʁɔ̃\
The verdict
“moucherons” is uncommon French (frequency #66,130 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,130
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de moucheron.
Corpus desk
Index FR-moucherons · moucherons · French
moucherons · rank #66,130 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,130
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH motorisées
Nearest frequency peer: motorisées (-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 « moucherons »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mossi
mossi
33,875 corpus weight
- motels
motels
33,874 corpus weight
- motocyclett…
motocyclettes
33,873 corpus weight
- motorisées
motorisées
33,872 corpus weight
- moucherons
moucherons
33,871 corpus weight
- mousquets
mousquets
33,870 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « moucherons » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | moucherons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \muʃ.ʁɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #66,130 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « moucherons » en français
Rare enough to double-check
moucherons is uncommon French at frequency #66,130 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \muʃ.ʁɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de moucheron.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for moucherons, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is moucherons, spelled M-O-U-C-H-E-R-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de moucheron.
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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