vieille moustache
\vjɛj mus.taʃ\
The verdict
“vieille moustache” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vieux soldat ayant de nombreuses années de service.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vieille-moustache · vieille moustache · French
vieille moustache · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 17 letters
- VOW-8 8 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "V" 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 | vieille moustache |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vjɛj mus.taʃ\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
vieille moustache is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \vjɛj mus.taʃ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Vieux soldat ayant de nombreuses années de service.".
vieille moustache has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 vieille moustache, spelled V-I-E-I-L-L-E- -M-O-U-S-T-A-C-H-E.
Definition
- 1Vieux soldat ayant de nombreuses années de service.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vieille moustache appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— Ne dirait-on pas, se disaient les vieilles moustaches, que nous allons passer la revue de Napoléon ?
Une vieille moustache comme moi, s’enjuponner, s’acoquiner à une femme !… pourquoi l’emmener ? il faut la quitter.
Synonyms
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.