mousseline

/\mu.slin\/ noun

Letters

10 characters

Frequency Rank

#37,932

in French word usage

Misspellings

12

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

mousseline is aFrenchnoun. It means: Toile de coton très claire et ordinairement très fine. Pronounced \mu.slin\.

Key facts for mousseline
PropertyValue
Headwordmousseline
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\mu.slin\
Letters10
Frequency rank#37,932
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of mousseline in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for mousseline is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mu.slin\. Corpus data places it at rank #37,932 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for mousseline, with forms such as "mmousseline", "mosuseline", and "mouseline". 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 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.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is mousseline, spelled M-O-U-S-S-E-L-I-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Toile de coton très claire et ordinairement très fine.
  2. 2
    Étoffe fine et souple.
  3. 3
    Écran léger, voile.
  4. 4
    Verre à vin très fin, dépoli et orné de motifs imitant le tissu du même nom. → voir mousselinage
  5. 5
    Fine purée de pomme de terre, plus généralement préparation légère.
  6. 6
    Plante du genre Asparagus.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: mmousseline,mosuseline,mouseline,mousesline,mousseilne,mousselien,mousselinne,mousselline,mousselnie,moussleine,muosseline,omusseline

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for mousseline

Misspelling Variants of "mousseline"

mmousseline11mosuseline10mouseline9mousesline10mousseilne10mousselien10mousselinne11mousselline11
Misspelling Variants of "mousseline"

Frequency rank: #37,932 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "mousseline"?
"mousseline" is spelled M-O-U-S-S-E-L-I-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is \mu.slin\.
What does "mousseline" mean?
As a noun, "mousseline" means: Toile de coton très claire et ordinairement très fine.
What are common misspellings of "mousseline"?
Common misspellings include "mmousseline", "mosuseline", "mouseline", "mousesline", "mousseilne". The correct spelling is "mousseline".
How do you pronounce "mousseline"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "mousseline" is \mu.slin\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "mousseline" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.