remugle
\ʁə.myɡl\
The verdict
“remugle” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Odeur désagréable de moisi, humidité ou renfermé. Relent.
Corpus desk
Index FR-remugle · remugle · French
remugle · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "R" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | remugle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁə.myɡl\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « remugle » en français
Rare enough to double-check
remugle is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁə.myɡl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for remugle, 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 to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is remugle, spelled R-E-M-U-G-L-E.
Definition
- 1Odeur désagréable de moisi, humidité ou renfermé. Relent.
- 2Relent.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how remugle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La fleur, à l’état brut, dégage un remugle de moisi et de rouille.
Il la conduisit dans un minuscule parloir, chichement meublé et sentant le remugle des vieilles maisons ladres.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.