mousiner
\mu.zi.ne\
The verdict
“mousiner” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pleuvoir d’une pluie fine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mousiner · mousiner · French
mousiner · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 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 | mousiner |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \mu.zi.ne\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
mousiner is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \mu.zi.ne\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pleuvoir d’une pluie fine.".
mousiner doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is mousiner, spelled M-O-U-S-I-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1Pleuvoir d’une pluie fine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mousiner appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On était en mars, et, pour parler le patois du pays, il mousinait, c'est-à-dire qu'il tombait une pluie fine et pénétrante.
Le Béarnais se mit à rire; […]. La voiture ne s'arrêta pas, car il tombait une petite pluie fine, il mousinait, comme on dit dans le pays, et on avait déjà perdu beaucoup de temps à écouter la harangue des notables de Sainte-Menehould ; mais Henri IV fit prendre les placets des verriers, et peu de jours après leur accorda de nouvelles lettres patentes.
Synonyms
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.