# model

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈmɒd.l̩/ · frequency rank #775

## Definitions
1. A person who serves as a human template for artwork or fashion.
2. A person, usually attractive, who is hired to show items or goods to the public, such as items that are given away as prizes on a TV game show.
3. A representation of a physical object.
4. A simulation used to analyze the workings of a real world system or event.
5. A style, type, or design.
6. The structural design of a complex system.
7. A successful example to be copied, with or without modifications.
8. An interpretation function which assigns a truth value to each atomic proposition.
9. An interpretation which makes a set of sentences true, in which case that interpretation is called a model of that set.
10. An organism or species that is used to study an aspect of physiology or pathophysiology or a particular disease; often, a nonhuman one used to approximate processes in humans.
11. Any copy, or resemblance, more or less exact.
12. In software applications using the model-view-controller design pattern, the part or parts of the application that manage the data.

## Etymology
From Middle French modelle, from Old Italian modello, from Vulgar Latin *modellus, diminutive form of modulus (“measure, standard”), diminutive of modus (“measure”); see mode, and compare module, modulus, mould, mold.

## Easily confused with
- **moe** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/model-vs-moe)
- **mol** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/model-vs-mol)
- **more** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/model-vs-more)
- **move** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/model-vs-move)
- **Modi** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/model-vs-modi)
- **mole** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/model-vs-mole)
- **mods** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/model-vs-mods)
- **moll** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/model-vs-moll)
- **mote** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/model-vs-mote)
- **money** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/model-vs-money)
- **moved** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/model-vs-moved)
- **moves** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/model-vs-moves)
- **moral** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/model-vs-moral)
- **Moses** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/model-vs-moses)
- **motel** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/model-vs-motel)
- **modem** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/model-vs-modem)
- **Mosul** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/model-vs-mosul)
- **mover** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/model-vs-mover)
- **mower** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/model-vs-mower)
- **Mogul** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/model-vs-mogul)

## Common misspellings (7)
`mdoel`, `mmodel`, `moddel`, `modell`, `modle`, `moedl`, `omdel`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/model