mouillent
\muj\
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
- montrais
montrais
43,242 corpus weight
- mota
mota
43,241 corpus weight
- motiv
motiv
43,240 corpus weight
- mouillent
mouillent
43,239 corpus weight
- moulinette
moulinette
43,238 corpus weight
- mousquet
mousquet
43,237 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mouillent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mouillent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \muj\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #56,762 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mouillent » en français
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
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de mouiller.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de mouiller.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mouillent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« 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.
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.
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