mouchier
\mu.ʃje\
The verdict
“mouchier” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (Vieilli) Éleveur d'abeilles domestiques.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mouchier · mouchier · French
mouchier · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mouchier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mu.ʃje\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mouchier » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mouchier is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \mu.ʃje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "(Vieilli) Éleveur d'abeilles domestiques.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for mouchier, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is mouchier, spelled M-O-U-C-H-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1(Vieilli) Éleveur d'abeilles domestiques.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mouchier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Traditionnellement, les mouchiers du Gâtinais occidental, calcaire, achetaient en hiver leurs paniers à mouches, ou ruches vulgaires, en Sologne, en basse Bourgogne ou dans le Gâtinais bocager.
La technique est moins destructrice que le culbutage. Celui qui procède à la taille enlève adroitement le pourtour des rayons qui contient le miel, laisse le centre où est le couvain. Si la taille est bien faite, la ruche peut se reconstituer rapidement. Le mouchier peut disposer au-dessus des paniers une calotte, hausse ou chapiteau, où les abeilles cons…
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.