mouiller
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#16,187
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
8
similar word pairs
mouiller is aFrenchverb. It means: Rendre humide, imbiber un objet de liquide. Pronounced \mu.je\. Often confused with Müller and mouillés.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mouiller |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \mu.je\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #16,187 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for mouiller is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mu.je\. Corpus data places it at rank #16,187 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for mouiller, with forms such as "mmouiller", "moiuller", and "mouilelr". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "Müller", "mouillés", "Miller", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is mouiller, spelled M-O-U-I-L-L-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Rendre humide, imbiber un objet de liquide.
- 2Ajouter du liquide (comme de l’eau, du lait ou du bouillon) à une sauce, ou à un plat qui a commencé à cuire sans eau.
- 3Mettre à l’eau.
- 4Compromettre, mettre en cause, impliquer (parfois contre sa volonté).
- 5Palataliser, en parlant d'une consonne.
- 6Jeter l’ancre, s’arrêter ou être ancré par opposition à être en déplacement.
- 7Pleuvoir. (Note : dans ce cas le verbe est défectif comme pleuvoir.)
- 8Avoir peur, par allusion à l’incontinence qui accompagne les grandes frayeurs.
- 9En parlant d’une femme, humecter la vulve avec des sécrétions vaginales lubrifiantes provoquées par l’excitation sexuelle ; en parlant d’un homme : secréter du liquide séminal à la suite de l’excitation sexuelle.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: mmouiller,moiuller,mouilelr,mouiler,mouillerr,mouillre,mouliler,muoiller,omuiller
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for mouiller
Misspelling Variants of "mouiller"
Frequency rank: #16,187 in French
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