mousse

\mus\

/\mus\/ noun

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The verdict

“mousse” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,892. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#8,892
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords
5
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plante rase des lieux humides formant des tapis spongieux composés de plusieurs individus.

Corpus desk

Index FR-mousse · mousse · French

mousse · rank #8,892 · 5 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #8,892
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 5 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH Molière

Nearest frequency peer: Molière (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « mousse »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « mousse » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

mousse vs muse
67% similar
mousse vs musée
67% similar
mousse vs musso
67% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for mousse
PropertyValue
Headwordmousse
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\mus\
Letters6
Frequency rank#8,892
Misspellings tracked5
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « mousse »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).moussese place ici:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « Molière » (#8,891), « nationalistes » (#8,893), « missile » (#8,890). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « mousse » est au #8,892. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 5 spelling variants around mousse (IPA \mus\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #8,892 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 8 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for mousse, with forms such as "mmousse", "mosuse", and "mouses". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "muse", "musée", "musso", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is mousse, spelled M-O-U-S-S-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Plante rase des lieux humides formant des tapis spongieux composés de plusieurs individus.
  2. 2
    Amas serré de bulles qui se forme à la surface d’un liquide.
  3. 3
    Polymère solidifié sous la forme de micro-bulles, à la consistance spongieuse et élastique.
  4. 4
    Matériau alvéolaire.
  5. 5
    Dessert, plein de bulles, en général au chocolat.
  6. 6
    Forme donnée à certain composant pour augmenter sa surface de contact.
  7. 7
    Bière.
  8. 8
    Souci, inquiétude.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Les pauvres, dans quelques contrées de la France, font des sommiers de mousse qui ont plusieurs avantages sur les paillasses. Les souris, les puces et les punaises n’y séjournent pas comme dans la paille. On choisit la mousse la plus douce, la plus longue, au mois d’août et de septembre ; on la fait sécher à l’ombre ; on la bat sur des claies pour en déta…
  2. Il ne devait d’abord décrire que les Mousses rapportées du Mexique par MM. Bourgeau et Hahn, mais il a pensé ensuite qu’il serait utile de porter son attention sur l’ensemble de la flore bryologique de cette vaste partie de l’Amérique. Il a été conduit ainsi à étudier 36o espèces de Mousses mexicaines, parmi lesquelles un grand nombre étaient inédites, qu…

Synonyms

écume

This word in other languages

moss(English)musgo(Español)Moos(Deutsch)colarinho(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • mmousse
  • mosuse
  • mouses
  • muosse
  • omusse

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mousse - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

mmousse1mosuse2mouses2muosse2omusse2
Edit distance from "mousse"

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 "mousse"?
"mousse" is spelled M-O-U-S-S-E. The IPA pronunciation is \mus\.
What does "mousse" mean?
As a noun, "mousse" means: Plante rase des lieux humides formant des tapis spongieux composés de plusieurs individus.
What words are commonly confused with "mousse"?
"mousse" is commonly confused with "muse", "musée", "musso". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "mousse"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "mousse" is \mus\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "mousse" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

milles#8,888parade#8,900pilule#8,907lignée#8,875

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).

Nike5 variantsrail5 variantsfake5 variantsfair5 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list