mouillant
\mu.jɑ̃\
The verdict
“mouillant” is uncommon French (frequency #85,948 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,948
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui mouille une surface.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mouillant · mouillant · French
mouillant · rank #85,948 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,948
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mout
Nearest frequency peer: mout (+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 « mouillant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- monacale
monacale
14,057 corpus weight
- Monclar
Monclar
14,056 corpus weight
- monisme
monisme
14,055 corpus weight
- mouillant
mouillant
14,053 corpus weight
- mout
mout
14,052 corpus weight
- MTA
MTA
14,050 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mouillant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mouillant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \mu.jɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #85,948 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mouillant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mouillant is uncommon French at frequency #85,948 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \mu.jɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui mouille une surface.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for mouillant, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 mouillant, spelled M-O-U-I-L-L-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui mouille une surface.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mouillant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans une bouillie bourguignonne alcaline, le même pouvoir mouillant peut être obtenu avec des quantités de savon variant de 100 à 1,000 grammes de savon par hecto, suivant la vitesse avec laquelle on a versé le carbonate de soude.
Lorsque le substrat est une solution aqueuse et le liquide mouillant un alcane, on peut s'affranchir de ce problème en utilisant les propriétés de surface d'un polymère fluoré industriel : le téflon, ou polytétrafluoroéthylène.
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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