moudre
French, verb/mudʁ/
moudre is spelled M-O-U-D-R-E (6 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 32,719th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Moudre is a French verb meaning “to grind” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Mettre en poudre au moyen d’un moulin”.
What does moudre mean in English?
verb
- 1
to grind
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Mettre en poudre au moyen d’un moulin. 2. Meurtrir, rendre dolent, en parlant du corps ou d'une partie de celui-ci. 3. Discuter à perte de vue, débattre dans le vide. 4. Jouer d’un instrument de musique sans nuance et sans expression.
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 moudre
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- moulant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- moulu participle past
- mouds first-person indicative present
- moud indicative present singular
- moulons first-person indicative plural
- moulez indicative plural present
- moulent indicative plural present
- moulais first-person imperfect indicative
- moulait imperfect indicative singular
- moulions first-person imperfect indicative
- mouliez imperfect indicative plural
- moulaient imperfect indicative plural
- moulus first-person historic indicative
- moulut historic indicative past
- moulûmes first-person historic indicative
- moulûtes historic indicative past
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce moudre?
- /mudʁ/
- \mudʁ\
- [mudʁ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to moudre
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is moudre in French?
moudre appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).