mouillait
\mu.jɛ\
The verdict
“mouillait” is uncommon French (frequency #95,081 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,081
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de mouiller.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mouillait · mouillait · French
mouillait · rank #95,081 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,081
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Moudon
Nearest frequency peer: Moudon (-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 « mouillait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- morfond
morfond
4,923 corpus weight
- morgues
morgues
4,922 corpus weight
- Moudon
Moudon
4,921 corpus weight
- mouillait
mouillait
4,920 corpus weight
- Moûtiers
Moûtiers
4,919 corpus weight
- muletiers
muletiers
4,918 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mouillait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mouillait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \mu.jɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #95,081 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mouillait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mouillait is uncommon French at frequency #95,081 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \mu.jɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de mouiller.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for mouillait, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is mouillait, spelled M-O-U-I-L-L-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de mouiller.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mouillait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La limande qui mouillait pour sa correspondance respire, elle glose et reglose sur les contrôleurs qui blablabla et remet une couche de sale satisfaction de vieille morue recrépie sûre de son « bon droit » - et une bonne droite dans ta gueule de bourgeoise, vieillasse ?…
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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