Moustiers
The verdict
“Moustiers” is uncommon French (frequency #83,178 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,178
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forme abrégée du nom de la commune française de Moustiers-Sainte-Marie, située dans le département des Alpes-de-Haute-Provence.
Corpus desk
Index FR-moustiers · Moustiers · French
Moustiers · rank #83,178 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,178
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mosellans
Nearest frequency peer: mosellans (-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 « Moustiers »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- monolithes
monolithes
16,827 corpus weight
- morses
morses
16,825 corpus weight
- mosellans
mosellans
16,824 corpus weight
- Moustiers
Moustiers
16,823 corpus weight
- mucha
mucha
16,822 corpus weight
- muséales
muséales
16,819 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Moustiers » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Moustiers |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #83,178 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Moustiers » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Moustiers is uncommon French at frequency #83,178 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Forme abrégée du nom de la commune française de Moustiers-Sainte-Marie, située dans le département des Alpes-de-Haute-Provence.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Moustiers, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 Moustiers, spelled M-O-U-S-T-I-E-R-S.
Definition
- 1Forme abrégée du nom de la commune française de Moustiers-Sainte-Marie, située dans le département des Alpes-de-Haute-Provence.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Moustiers appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce pèlerinage de l’aube qui se faisait en 1911 partait du village de Moustiers à nuit noire.
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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