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moût

French, noun

moût is spelled M-O-Û-T (4 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 42,802nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Moût is a French masculine noun meaning “must (of grape, apple etc.)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, mout is a different word: “post-1990 spelling of moût”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Jus de raisin qui n’a pas encore fermenté”.

What does moût mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinemust (of grape, apple etc.)

  2. 2

    masculinewort (of hops, barley)

noun

as mout
  1. 1

    masculinepost-1990 spelling of moût

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Variante de moût.

noun: 1. Jus de raisin qui n’a pas encore fermenté. 2. Liquide sucré extrait des divers végétaux et destiné ordinairement à la fermentation alcoolique.

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 moût

  • mouts plural
  • moûts plural
  • mout alternative
  • moult

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to moût

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is moût in French?

moût appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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