mouise
\mwiz\
The verdict
“mouise” is uncommon French (frequency #53,501 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,501
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Misère ; difficultés.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mouise · mouise · French
mouise · rank #53,501 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,501
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH morpho
Nearest frequency peer: morpho (-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 « mouise »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Montserrat
Montserrat
46,504 corpus weight
- monétiser
monétiser
46,503 corpus weight
- morpho
morpho
46,501 corpus weight
- mouise
mouise
46,500 corpus weight
- moves
moves
46,498 corpus weight
- multipliez
multipliez
46,497 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mouise » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mouise |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mwiz\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #53,501 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mouise » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mouise is uncommon French at frequency #53,501 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mwiz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Misère ; difficultés.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for mouise, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is mouise, spelled M-O-U-I-S-E.
Definition
- 1Misère ; difficultés.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mouise appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Voilà, un soir de mouise, le ventre creux, pas un pélo en poche, je me reposais sur un banc du côté de la porte Maillot. V’là le vieux qui s’aboule… […] Y s’met à côté de moi et m'offre une cigarette.
Même la lente dégringolade ne devait pas être sans charme. On s’habitue très bien à un hôtel de cinquième ordre et, un jour de mouise, on peut trouver une certaine excitation à coucher sur un banc après avoir fait la queue devant une soupe populaire.
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).