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moussant

French, verb/mu.sɑ̃/

moussant is spelled M-O-U-S-S-A-N-T (8 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written French, the 65,044th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Moussant is a French verb meaning “present participle of mousser” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

What does moussant mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    present participle of mousser

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. Qui mousse, produit de la mousse. 2. Propriété d’un additif tensioactif qui forme une barrière de mousse à la surface d'un solide pour mieux éteindre un incendie.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of moussant

  • moussants plural masculine
  • moussante singular feminine
  • moussantes plural feminine

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce moussant?

  • /mu.sɑ̃/
  • \mu.sɑ̃\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is moussant in French?

moussant appears about once in every 4 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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