mulot
\my.lo\
The verdict
“mulot” is uncommon French (frequency #58,772 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,772
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Espèce de souris des champs, de couleur rousse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mulot · mulot · French
mulot · rank #58,772 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,772
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH moulés
Nearest frequency peer: moulés (-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 « mulot »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- montrèrent
montrèrent
41,232 corpus weight
- morgen
morgen
41,231 corpus weight
- moulés
moulés
41,230 corpus weight
- mulot
mulot
41,229 corpus weight
- multirécidi…
multirécidiviste
41,228 corpus weight
- mystificati…
mystification
41,226 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mulot » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mulot |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \my.lo\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #58,772 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mulot » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mulot is uncommon French at frequency #58,772 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \my.lo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for mulot, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is mulot, spelled M-U-L-O-T.
Definition
- 1Espèce de souris des champs, de couleur rousse.
- 2Campagnol, autre souris des champs, brune et à queue courte.
- 3Souris d’ordinateur.
- 4Petite brique pleine ou perforée, correspondant à une demi brique, c'est à dire une brique coupée dans le sens de la longueur.
- 5Personne qui vole des objets dans les cellules des autres.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mulot appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Trou de mulot.
Les mulots coupent la racine des blés.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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