mouiller à boire debout

verb

The verdict

“mouiller à boire debout” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency French
23
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Pleuvoir abondamment.

Key facts for mouiller à boire debout
PropertyValue
Headwordmouiller à boire debout
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
Letters23
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “mouiller à boire debout” sits in French frequency

mouiller à boire debout falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

mouiller à boire debout is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pleuvoir abondamment.".

mouiller à boire debout doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is mouiller à boire debout, spelled M-O-U-I-L-L-E-R- -À- -B-O-I-R-E- -D-E-B-O-U-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pleuvoir abondamment.

Synonyms

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "mouiller à boire debout"?
"mouiller à boire debout" is spelled M-O-U-I-L-L-E-R- -À- -B-O-I-R-E- -D-E-B-O-U-T.
What does "mouiller à boire debout" mean?
As a verb, "mouiller à boire debout" means: Pleuvoir abondamment.
What language does "mouiller à boire debout" come from?
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Using “mouiller à boire debout”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is M-O-U-I-L-L-E-R- -À- -B-O-I-R-E- -D-E-B-O-U-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source

Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list