moyeux
\mwa.jø\
The verdict
“moyeux” is uncommon French (frequency #88,910 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,910
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Terme présent dans la locution « pierre moyeuse ».
Corpus desk
Index FR-moyeux · moyeux · French
moyeux · rank #88,910 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,910
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH munit
Nearest frequency peer: munit (+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 « moyeux »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- montreras
montreras
11,094 corpus weight
- moyeux
moyeux
11,091 corpus weight
- munit
munit
11,090 corpus weight
- mush
mush
11,089 corpus weight
- mégas
mégas
11,088 corpus weight
- mélamine
mélamine
11,087 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « moyeux » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | moyeux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \mwa.jø\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #88,910 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « moyeux » en français
Rare enough to double-check
moyeux is uncommon French at frequency #88,910 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \mwa.jø\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Terme présent dans la locution « pierre moyeuse ».".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for moyeux, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is moyeux, spelled M-O-Y-E-U-X.
Definition
- 1Terme présent dans la locution « pierre moyeuse ».
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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