mousseux
French, noun/mu.sø/
mousseux is spelled M-O-U-S-S-E-U-X (8 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 31,863rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mousseux is a French masculine noun meaning “ellipsis of vin mousseux; sparkling wine” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Vin pétillant”.
What does mousseux mean in English?
adjective
- 1
foamy; frothy
- 2
sparkling
noun
- 1
masculineellipsis of vin mousseux; sparkling wine
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui ressemble à de la mousse. 2. Qui mousse, qui fait beaucoup de mousse ou qui pétille.
noun: 1. Vin pétillant.
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 mousseux
- mousseuse feminine
- mousseuses feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce mousseux?
- /mu.sø/
- \mu.sø\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to mousseux
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is mousseux in French?
mousseux appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).