mousseux
\mu.sø\
The verdict
“mousseux” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,079. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,079
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui ressemble à de la mousse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mousseux · mousseux · French
mousseux · rank #32,079 · 9 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,079
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Muslim
Nearest frequency peer: Muslim (+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 « mousseux »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Montreux
Montreux
67,925 corpus weight
- Montrouge
Montrouge
67,924 corpus weight
- mousseux
mousseux
67,922 corpus weight
- Muslim
Muslim
67,921 corpus weight
- méditerrané…
méditerranéens
67,920 corpus weight
- Mézières
Mézières
67,919 corpus weight
What this shows « mousseux » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mousseux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \mu.sø\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #32,079 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « mousseux »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around mousseux (IPA \mu.sø\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #32,079 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for mousseux, with forms such as "mmousseux", "mosuseux", and "mousesux". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "mousse", "mousses", "mousser", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is mousseux, spelled M-O-U-S-S-E-U-X.
Definition
- 1Qui ressemble à de la mousse.
- 2Qui mousse, qui fait beaucoup de mousse ou qui pétille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mousseux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un tapis mousseux.
Schwann, quand je le connus, devait être âgé de soixante ans ; il était petit, mince, fluet, léger comme une danseuse ; ses cheveux mousseux, crépelés, complètement blancs, d'un blanc de lune et de lait, s'envolaient autour de son front.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mmousseux
- mosuseux
- mousesux
- mouseux
- mousseuxx
- moussexu
- moussuex
- muosseux
- omusseux
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mousseux - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).