moureau
\mu.ʁo\
The verdict
“moureau” is uncommon French (frequency #98,266 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,266
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rouge-gorge.
Corpus desk
Index FR-moureau · moureau · French
moureau · rank #98,266 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,266
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Mouilleron
Nearest frequency peer: Mouilleron (-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 « moureau »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Montag
Montag
1,740 corpus weight
- Montluel
Montluel
1,739 corpus weight
- Moskva
Moskva
1,738 corpus weight
- Mouilleron
Mouilleron
1,736 corpus weight
- moureau
moureau
1,735 corpus weight
- muff
muff
1,732 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « moureau » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | moureau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mu.ʁo\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #98,266 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « moureau » en français
Rare enough to double-check
moureau is uncommon French at frequency #98,266 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mu.ʁo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
moureau has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is moureau, spelled M-O-U-R-E-A-U.
Definition
- 1Rouge-gorge.
- 2Variété d'olive.
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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