moulée

\mu.le\

/\mu.le\/ noun

The verdict

“moulée” is uncommon French (frequency #50,981 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#50,981
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Aliment pour le bétail, constitué principalement de céréales. ^([1])

Corpus desk

Index FR-moulee · moulée · French

moulée · rank #50,981 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #50,981
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH moucher

Nearest frequency peer: moucher (-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 « moulée »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « moulée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for moulée
PropertyValue
Headwordmoulée
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\mu.le\
Letters6
Frequency rank#50,981
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « moulée » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).mouléetombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « moucher » (#50,980), « mountains » (#50,982), « morveux » (#50,979). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « moulée » est au #50,981. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

moulée is uncommon French at frequency #50,981 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mu.le\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Aliment pour le bétail, constitué principalement de céréales. ^([1])".

We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for moulée, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. 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.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 moulée, spelled M-O-U-L-É-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Aliment pour le bétail, constitué principalement de céréales. ^([1])

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how moulée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Au cours de son projet pilote, Enterra produisait environ 10 tonnes de moulée par mois. Elle en produit maintenant 10 tonnes par jour.
  2. Le lapin mange de la moulée et des végétaux.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "moulée"?
"moulée" is spelled M-O-U-L-É-E. The IPA pronunciation is \mu.le\.
What does "moulée" mean?
As a noun, "moulée" means: Aliment pour le bétail, constitué principalement de céréales. ^([1])
How do you pronounce "moulée"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "moulée" is \mu.le\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "moulée" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "moulée", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list