moussaka
\mu.sa.ka\
The verdict
“moussaka” is uncommon French (frequency #96,150 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,150
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plat d'origine grecque, à base de mouton, bœuf, aubergine ou pomme de terre, tomate et béchamel.
Corpus desk
Index FR-moussaka · moussaka · French
moussaka · rank #96,150 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,150
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH moulinets
Nearest frequency peer: moulinets (-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 « moussaka »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Monplaisir
Monplaisir
3,856 corpus weight
- moulinets
moulinets
3,852 corpus weight
- moussaka
moussaka
3,851 corpus weight
- moz
moz
3,850 corpus weight
- multicultur…
multiculturaliste
3,849 corpus weight
- munissez
munissez
3,848 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « moussaka » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | moussaka |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mu.sa.ka\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #96,150 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « moussaka » en français
Rare enough to double-check
moussaka is uncommon French at frequency #96,150 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mu.sa.ka\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Plat d'origine grecque, à base de mouton, bœuf, aubergine ou pomme de terre, tomate et béchamel.".
No misspelling variants are generated for moussaka in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 moussaka, spelled M-O-U-S-S-A-K-A.
Definition
- 1Plat d'origine grecque, à base de mouton, bœuf, aubergine ou pomme de terre, tomate et béchamel.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how moussaka appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des serveurs se pressaient entre les tables, versant du vin local à la carafe et portant haut des assiettes fumantes de moussaka, de souvlaki et de kleftiko.
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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