moustiquaires
\mus.ti.kɛʁ\
The verdict
“moustiquaires” is uncommon French (frequency #63,184 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,184
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de moustiquaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-moustiquaires · moustiquaires · French
moustiquaires · rank #63,184 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,184
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mordante
Nearest frequency peer: mordante (-2 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 « moustiquaires »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- moldu
moldu
36,822 corpus weight
- montreraient
montreraient
36,821 corpus weight
- mordante
mordante
36,819 corpus weight
- moustiquair…
moustiquaires
36,817 corpus weight
- myron
myron
36,814 corpus weight
- mégalomanie
mégalomanie
36,812 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « moustiquaires » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | moustiquaires |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mus.ti.kɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #63,184 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « moustiquaires » en français
Rare enough to double-check
moustiquaires is uncommon French at frequency #63,184 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mus.ti.kɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de moustiquaire.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for moustiquaires, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is moustiquaires, spelled M-O-U-S-T-I-Q-U-A-I-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de moustiquaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how moustiquaires appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ces voyages étaient de véritables aventures et il convenait chaque fois de se préparer au pire en emportant pelles, haches, machettes, crics, tire-forts et surtout les inévitables "caisse-popote", "lit-picot" et moustiquaires, sans oublier un ou deux manœuvres. — (Bernard Le Doux, O Tangani, Liv’éditions, 1994)
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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