moulin à eau
\mu.lɛ̃ a o\
The verdict
“moulin à eau” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Moulin utilisant une roue à aubes pour transformer en mouvement de rotation l’énergie d'un cours d'eau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-moulin-a-eau · moulin à eau · French
moulin à eau · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | moulin à eau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mu.lɛ̃ a o\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
moulin à eau is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \mu.lɛ̃ a o\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Moulin utilisant une roue à aubes pour transformer en mouvement de rotation l’énergie d'un cours d'eau.".
No misspelling variants are generated for moulin à eau in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is moulin à eau, spelled M-O-U-L-I-N- -À- -E-A-U.
Definition
- 1Moulin utilisant une roue à aubes pour transformer en mouvement de rotation l’énergie d'un cours d'eau.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how moulin à eau appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il n’est pas téméraire de supposer que ce moulin à eau, dit de Locmaria, bien qu’il fût situé sur la rive droite de la rivière, n’était autre que l’ancien moulin du prieuré, le fief de Locmaria s’étendant sur les deux rives.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.