mousqueton

\mus.kə.tɔ̃\

/\mus.kə.tɔ̃\/ noun

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The verdict

“mousqueton” is uncommon French (frequency #64,628 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#64,628
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ancienne arme à feu, du même calibre que le mousquet, mais plus courte que celui-ci.

Corpus desk

Index FR-mousqueton · mousqueton · French

mousqueton · rank #64,628 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #64,628
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH Moulinsart

Nearest frequency peer: Moulinsart (-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 « mousqueton »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mousqueton » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for mousqueton
PropertyValue
Headwordmousqueton
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\mus.kə.tɔ̃\
Letters10
Frequency rank#64,628
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « mousqueton » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.mousquetontombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « Moulinsart » (#64,627), « morat » (#64,626), « multipliait » (#64,630). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « mousqueton » est au #64,628. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

mousqueton is uncommon French at frequency #64,628 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mus.kə.tɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for mousqueton, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is mousqueton, spelled M-O-U-S-Q-U-E-T-O-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ancienne arme à feu, du même calibre que le mousquet, mais plus courte que celui-ci.
  2. 2
    Fusil court, dont étaient armés les cavaliers, les servants d’artillerie et les mitrailleurs d’infanterie, et qui peut être porté en bandoulière.
  3. 3
    Porte-mousqueton, sorte de crochet à déclic qui s’ouvre et se ferme pour recevoir un anneau.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how mousqueton appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. En fait d’armes, le lieutenant Hobson emportait, avec des munitions en quantité suffisante, les mousquetons réglementaires délivrés par la Compagnie, des pistolets et quelques sabres d’ordonnance.
  2. « Je ne compte pas vous surprendre ni surtout provoquer votre indignation en vous disant que la balle, une fois extraite, se révéla être une balle de mousqueton. Et même de mousqueton réglementaire de gendarmerie, me dit mon père. »

Synonyms

espingoletromblon

This word in other languages

carabiner(English)

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "mousqueton"?
"mousqueton" is spelled M-O-U-S-Q-U-E-T-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \mus.kə.tɔ̃\.
What does "mousqueton" mean?
As a noun, "mousqueton" means: Ancienne arme à feu, du même calibre que le mousquet, mais plus courte que celui-ci.
How do you pronounce "mousqueton"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "mousqueton" is \mus.kə.tɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "mousqueton", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Moulinsart#64,627Montagnier#64,623mégalopole#64,636monachisme#64,619

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list