moulin
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,480
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
19
similar word pairs
moulin is aFrenchnoun. It means: Machine permettant de moudre du grain. Pronounced \mu.lɛ̃\. It ranks #5,480 in French word frequency. Often confused with moult and moulu.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | moulin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mu.lɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #5,480 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for moulin is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mu.lɛ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,480 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 12 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for moulin, with forms such as "mmoulin", "moluin", and "mouiln". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 19 confusable-pair relationships, "moult", "moulu", "mourir", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is moulin, spelled M-O-U-L-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Machine permettant de moudre du grain.
- 2Machine mue de la même façon (éolienne ou hydraulique), mais destinée à d'autres usages (papeterie, scierie…).
- 3Ustensile, appareil ou machine qui sert à moudre d’autres grains, d’autres graines, d’autres denrées.
- 4Machine de même aspect, qui sert à divers usages.
- 5Bâtiment où se trouvent les machines à moudre.
- 6Société qui détient ces bâtiments et ces machines.
- 7Endroit où n’importe qui peut entrer.
- 8Fracture dans un glacier par laquelle s’écoulent les eaux de fonte ^([1]).
- 9Doigté de tambour, utilisé en percussions, mélangeant les doigtés frisé et roulé.
- 10Moteur.
- 11Machine, moteur, en général.
- 12Meuble représentant l’édifice du même nom dans les armoiries. Il est rarement représenté entier (on ne voit souvent que sa roue). Souvent il est fait référence dans le blasonnement à un édifice particulier dit du lieu. À rapprocher de moulin à vent.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: mmoulin,moluin,mouiln,moulinn,moullin,moulni,muolin,omulin
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for moulin
Misspelling Variants of "moulin"
Frequency rank: #5,480 in French
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