mousseau
\mu.so\
The verdict
“mousseau” is uncommon French (frequency #85,040 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,040
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Terme présent dans la locution « pain mousseau », qualifiant du pain fait avec de la farine de gruau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mousseau · mousseau · French
mousseau · rank #85,040 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,040
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mortifères
Nearest frequency peer: mortifères (-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 « mousseau »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mortificati…
mortification
14,963 corpus weight
- mortifères
mortifères
14,962 corpus weight
- mousseau
mousseau
14,961 corpus weight
- muent
muent
14,959 corpus weight
- musquée
musquée
14,957 corpus weight
- Mut
Mut
14,956 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mousseau » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mousseau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \mu.so\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #85,040 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mousseau » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mousseau is uncommon French at frequency #85,040 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \mu.so\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Terme présent dans la locution « pain mousseau », qualifiant du pain fait avec de la farine de gruau.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for mousseau, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is mousseau, spelled M-O-U-S-S-E-A-U.
Definition
- 1Terme présent dans la locution « pain mousseau », qualifiant du pain fait avec de la farine de gruau.
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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