moselle
/məʊˈzɛl/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.26 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A left tributary of Rhine, flowing through the departments of Vosges, Meurthe-et-Moselle and Moselle in northeastern France, through Luxembourg, and through the states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland, Germany.
name
A department of Grand Est, France.
noun
A light white wine, made from Riesling grapes originating in the valley of this river.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
Etymology
Borrowed from French Moselle, from Latin Mosella.
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: Mosella