mouline
\mu.lin\
The verdict
“mouline” is uncommon French (frequency #91,960 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,960
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forge utilisant la force hydraulique pour façonner le fer au Moyen Âge.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mouline · mouline · French
mouline · rank #91,960 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,960
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH moudjahidine
Nearest frequency peer: moudjahidine (-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 « mouline »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- moris
moris
8,045 corpus weight
- motocycles
motocycles
8,044 corpus weight
- moudjahidine
moudjahidine
8,042 corpus weight
- mouline
mouline
8,041 corpus weight
- moureaux
moureaux
8,040 corpus weight
- multination…
multinationaux
8,038 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mouline » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mouline |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mu.lin\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #91,960 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mouline » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mouline is uncommon French at frequency #91,960 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mu.lin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Forge utilisant la force hydraulique pour façonner le fer au Moyen Âge.".
mouline doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is mouline, spelled M-O-U-L-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Forge utilisant la force hydraulique pour façonner le fer au Moyen Âge.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mouline appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La mouline est une forge hydraulique de réduction directe, l’ancêtre de la forge à la catalane du XVIIe siècle. Elle apparaît autour des années 1300 en Languedoc où elle se diffuse avec rapidité et s’implante durablement dans les Pyrénées centrales.
La mouline a bouleversé les conditions traditionnelles de production ; elle a alimenté un marché qui dépasse la sphère locale ; elle a mobilisé l’intérêt des comtes de Foix qui ont su accompagner l’innovation par leur législation ; elle a imposé une redéfinition des droits d’usage sur le bois et le minerai qui a confirmé la force des maîtres de mouline au…
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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