mouillure
French, noun/mu.jyʁ/
mouillure is spelled M-O-U-I-L-L-U-R-E (9 letters) and appears about once in every 48 million words in written French, the 219,133rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mouillure is a French feminine noun meaning “wetting” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action de mouiller ou état de ce qui est mouillé”.
What does mouillure mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininewetting
- 2
femininewetness, wet patch
- 3
femininepalatalization
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Action de mouiller ou état de ce qui est mouillé. 2. Action de mouiller une consonne, palatalisation. 3. Traces laissées par l’humidité.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of mouillure
- mouillures plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce mouillure?
- /mu.jyʁ/
- \mu.jyʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is mouillure in French?
mouillure appears about once in every 48 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).