muqueux
French, adjective/my.kø/
muqueux is spelled M-U-Q-U-E-U-X (7 letters) and appears about once in every 8 million words in written French, the 94,626th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Muqueux is a French adjective meaning “mucous” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Relatif à la muqueuse, aux mucosités qu'elle produit”.
What does muqueux mean in English?
adjective
- 1
mucous
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Relatif à la muqueuse, aux mucosités qu'elle produit. 2. Qualifie les glandes qui sécrètent des mucosités. 3. Qualifie une membrane humectée de mucosités. 4. Qualifiait la fièvre typhoïde dans sa forme légère.
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 muqueux
- muqueuse feminine
- muqueuses feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce muqueux?
- /my.kø/
- \my.kø\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to muqueux
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is muqueux in French?
muqueux appears about once in every 8 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).