moui
\mwi\
The verdict
“moui” is uncommon French (frequency #57,437 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,437
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Acquiescement faible, mou, sans grand enthousiasme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-moui · moui · French
moui · rank #57,437 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,437
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mortuaires
Nearest frequency peer: mortuaires (-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 « moui »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Morissette
Morissette
42,566 corpus weight
- mortuaires
mortuaires
42,565 corpus weight
- moui
moui
42,564 corpus weight
- moulées
moulées
42,563 corpus weight
- mucoviscido…
mucoviscidose
42,562 corpus weight
- multifoncti…
multifonctionnel
42,561 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « moui » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | moui |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \mwi\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #57,437 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « moui » en français
Rare enough to double-check
moui is uncommon French at frequency #57,437 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anadverb, transcribed \mwi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Acquiescement faible, mou, sans grand enthousiasme.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for moui, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is moui, spelled M-O-U-I.
Definition
- 1Acquiescement faible, mou, sans grand enthousiasme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how moui appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Certes il fallait que la pauvre Hammer fût bien bouleversée, pour s’animer ainsi et repousser Mme Ebsen vers la sortie, opposant à toutes ses questions son « moui… moui » dolent, désolé, où se sentaient le désespoir et la confusion que lui causait, après tant de milliers d’années, la funeste aventure d’Adam et d’Ève sous le pommier.
– Colombe ! C’est la même marchande ! Colombe ! – Moui !
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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