mouillez
\mu.je\
The verdict
“mouillez” is uncommon French (frequency #66,926 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,926
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de mouiller.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mouillez · mouillez · French
mouillez · rank #66,926 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,926
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH motets
Nearest frequency peer: motets (-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 « mouillez »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- moralisme
moralisme
33,078 corpus weight
- motets
motets
33,076 corpus weight
- mouillez
mouillez
33,075 corpus weight
- mox
mox
33,074 corpus weight
- moyenâgeux
moyenâgeux
33,073 corpus weight
- multination…
multinational
33,072 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mouillez » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mouillez |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \mu.je\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #66,926 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mouillez » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mouillez is uncommon French at frequency #66,926 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \mu.je\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for mouillez in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is mouillez, spelled M-O-U-I-L-L-E-Z.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de mouiller.
- 2Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’impératif de mouiller.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mouillez appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au bout de 5 min, déglacez au vinaigre de cidre, puis mouillez votre bouillon en ajoutant un L d’eau (idéalement 1 L de bouillon végétal, réalisé au préalable avec les épluchures des légumes pour avoir un goût plus profond.
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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