mouillent

\muj\

/\muj\/ verb

The verdict

“mouillent” is uncommon French (frequency #56,762 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#56,762
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de mouiller.

Corpus desk

Index FR-mouillent · mouillent · French

mouillent · rank #56,762 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #56,762
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH motiv

Nearest frequency peer: motiv (-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 « mouillent »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mouillent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for mouillent
PropertyValue
Headwordmouillent
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\muj\
Letters9
Frequency rank#56,762
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « mouillent » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).mouillenttombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « motiv » (#56,761), « moulinette » (#56,763), « mota » (#56,760). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « mouillent » est au #56,762. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

mouillent is uncommon French at frequency #56,762 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \muj\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

mouillent has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 mouillent, spelled M-O-U-I-L-L-E-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de mouiller.
  2. 2
    Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de mouiller.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how mouillent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. « Les opérateurs se sont retroussés les manches et mouillent le maillot », a-t-elle assuré après un conseil d’administration extraordinaire de l’autorité organisatrice des transports franciliens.
  2. Ils ne se mouillent jamais les pinglots, observent, localisent, et s’emparent du butin à la première occase, avant de disparaître en lévitation, sans laisser de traces.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "mouillent"?
"mouillent" is spelled M-O-U-I-L-L-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \muj\.
What does "mouillent" mean?
As a verb, "mouillent" means: Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de mouiller.
How do you pronounce "mouillent"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "mouillent" is \muj\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "mouillent", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list