moulinet
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#48,058
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
moulinet is aFrenchnoun. It means: Tourniquet dont on se sert pour enlever ou pour tirer des fardeaux, ou encore pour mesurer la vitesse de l’eau. Pronounced \mu.li.nɛ\. Often confused with moulins and moulin.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | moulinet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mu.li.nɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #48,058 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for moulinet is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mu.li.nɛ\. Corpus data places it at rank #48,058 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for moulinet, with forms such as "mmoulinet", "moluinet", and "mouilnet". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "moulins", "moulin", "moulant", 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 moulinet, spelled M-O-U-L-I-N-E-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Tourniquet dont on se sert pour enlever ou pour tirer des fardeaux, ou encore pour mesurer la vitesse de l’eau.
- 2Petite manivelle que l’on adapte à une canne à pêche, pour en enrouler et dérouler le fil.
- 3Mouvement circulaire comme celui des ailes d'un moulin à vent.
- 4Mouvement que l'on fait avec une épée, avec un bâton, en les maniant en rond autour de soi avec tant de vitesse, qu’on puisse parer les coups qui seraient portés en même temps par plusieurs personnes.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: mmoulinet,moluinet,mouilnet,moulient,moulinett,moulinnet,moulinte,moullinet,moulniet,muolinet,omulinet
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "moulinet"
Frequency rank: #48,058 in French
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