mouler
\mu.le\
The verdict
“mouler” is uncommon French (frequency #63,941 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,941
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Jeter en moule, faire au moule.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mouler · mouler · French
mouler · rank #63,941 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,941
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH morcelée
Nearest frequency peer: morcelée (-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 « mouler »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Montdidier
Montdidier
36,064 corpus weight
- Monteverdi
Monteverdi
36,063 corpus weight
- moray
moray
36,062 corpus weight
- morcelée
morcelée
36,061 corpus weight
- mouler
mouler
36,060 corpus weight
- mumble
mumble
36,058 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mouler » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mouler |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \mu.le\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #63,941 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mouler » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mouler is uncommon French at frequency #63,941 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \mu.le\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
mouler doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is mouler, spelled M-O-U-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Jeter en moule, faire au moule.
- 2Épouser les contours.
- 3Prendre modèle sur quelqu’un.
- 4Quitter précipitamment, laisser en plan.
- 5Tracer des caractères d'écriture avec soin et régularité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mouler appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mouler une figure, des médailles.
Mouler en plâtre, en terre. Quand il s’agit des Métaux, on dit plutôt fondre ou couler.
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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