moucheture
French, noun/muʃ.tyʁ/
moucheture is spelled M-O-U-C-H-E-T-U-R-E (10 letters) and appears about once in every 47 million words in written French, the 216,805th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Moucheture is a French feminine noun meaning “fleck, speckle” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Taches naturelles qui se trouvent sur la peau de certains quadrupèdes, sur le plumage de plusieurs espèces…”.
What does moucheture mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininefleck, speckle
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Taches naturelles qui se trouvent sur la peau de certains quadrupèdes, sur le plumage de plusieurs espèces d’oiseaux, sur les ailes de divers papillons, etc. 2. Ornement qu’on donne à une étoffe en la mouchetant. 3. Petite tache sur un vêtement ou un objet. 4. Scarification superficielle.
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 moucheture
- mouchetures plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce moucheture?
- /muʃ.tyʁ/
- \muʃ.tyʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is moucheture in French?
moucheture appears about once in every 47 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).