mouchette
Letters
9 characters
Language
French
word origin
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mouchette is aFrenchnoun. It means: Instrument ancien ayant la forme d’une paire de ciseaux destiné à tailler la mèche brûlée d’une chandelle et pourvu sur sa lame d’un petit réceptacle destiné à la recueillir. (voir note en dessous) Pronounced \mu.ʃɛt\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mouchette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mu.ʃɛt\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for mouchette is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mu.ʃɛt\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for mouchette in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is mouchette, spelled M-O-U-C-H-E-T-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Instrument ancien ayant la forme d’une paire de ciseaux destiné à tailler la mèche brûlée d’une chandelle et pourvu sur sa lame d’un petit réceptacle destiné à la recueillir. (voir note en dessous)
- 2Partie d’un vitrail dont les contours délimitent une forme asymétrique, évoquant souvent une flamme.
- 3Partie saillante d’un larmier.
- 4Petit rabot utilisé pour arrondir les angles des baguettes.
- 5Résidus de plâtre que l'on tamise, puis mélange avec des colorants et avec du plâtre neuf pour faire des enduits mouchetés.
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