mout
\mu\
The verdict
“mout” is uncommon French (frequency #85,949 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,949
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante de moût.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mout · mout · French
mout · rank #85,949 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,949
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mouillant
Nearest frequency peer: mouillant (-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 « mout »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Monclar
Monclar
14,056 corpus weight
- monisme
monisme
14,055 corpus weight
- mouillant
mouillant
14,053 corpus weight
- mout
mout
14,052 corpus weight
- MTA
MTA
14,050 corpus weight
- muletier
muletier
14,049 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mout » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mout |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mu\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #85,949 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mout » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mout is uncommon French at frequency #85,949 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mu\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante de moût.".
Zero misspellings are on record for mout in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 mout, spelled M-O-U-T.
Definition
- 1Variante de moût.
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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