moulure
\mu.lyʁ\
The verdict
“moulure” is uncommon French (frequency #54,741 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,741
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom générique de chacune des parties plus ou moins saillantes d’une surface, qui servent d’ornement courant dans un ouvrage d’architecture.
Corpus desk
Index FR-moulure · moulure · French
moulure · rank #54,741 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,741
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH moria
Nearest frequency peer: moria (-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 « moulure »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- moraine
moraine
45,263 corpus weight
- Moreira
Moreira
45,262 corpus weight
- moria
moria
45,261 corpus weight
- moulure
moulure
45,260 corpus weight
- multilatéral
multilatéral
45,258 corpus weight
- muraux
muraux
45,257 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « moulure » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | moulure |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mu.lyʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #54,741 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « moulure » en français
Rare enough to double-check
moulure is uncommon French at frequency #54,741 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mu.lyʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for moulure, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is moulure, spelled M-O-U-L-U-R-E.
Definition
- 1Nom générique de chacune des parties plus ou moins saillantes d’une surface, qui servent d’ornement courant dans un ouvrage d’architecture.
- 2Ces mêmes parties, en parlant des ouvrages de menuiserie.
- 3Baguette, plus ou moins ouvragée, creusée de rainures, pour y dissimuler les fils conducteurs d’électricité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how moulure appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’avais joué, tout enfant, dans les ruines de Saint-Jean de Soissons ; j’avais réjoui mes yeux aux fantaisies de toutes ces moulures, qui semblent des fleurs pétrifiées, ….
La moulure E est une scotie, nommée rond creux ou nacelle ; elle sert aux bases des colonnes Ionique, Composite & Corinthien, pour faire opposition aux tores qui sont des moulures convexes ; ce qui forme une agréable diversité lorsqu'elles sont séparées par des listeaux ; […].
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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