moraine
/məˈɹeɪn/
"moraine" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“moraine” has 9 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #42,283. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #42,283
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An accumulation of rocks and debris carried and deposited by a glacier.
Corpus desk
Index EN-moraine · moraine · English
moraine · rank #42,283 · 9 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,283
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH monorail
Nearest frequency peer: monorail (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “moraine”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Molloy
Molloy
57,722 corpus weight
- Monahan
Monahan
57,720 corpus weight
- monorail
monorail
57,719 corpus weight
- moraine
moraine
57,718 corpus weight
- Morehouse
Morehouse
57,717 corpus weight
- Morpheus
Morpheus
57,716 corpus weight
What this shows “moraine” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | moraine |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /məˈɹeɪn/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #42,283 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “moraine”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around moraine (IPA /məˈɹeɪn/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #42,283 among 4,057 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "An accumulation of rocks and debris carried and deposited by a glacier.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for moraine, with forms such as "mmoraine", "moarine", and "moraien". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "Moran", "Morin", "morale", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From French moraine, from Savoyard Italian morena, from Franco-Provençal mor, morre (“muzzle, snout”), from Vulgar Latin *murrum. Compare morion. The correct English form is moraine, spelled M-O-R-A-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1An accumulation of rocks and debris carried and deposited by a glacier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how moraine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
1896, James Edward Todd, The Moraines of the Missouri Coteau, and Their Attendant Deposits, US Geological Survey, Bulletin No. 144, page 47, This fact is suggestive in connection with the question whether the moraines mark different epochs of the ice age or different stages in the recession of the ice of one epoch. This moraine, like the previous ones, in…
Prof. Dainelli made a personal study of the lakes of the Upper Indus lying between its confluence with the Gilgit on the west and the plains of Kashmir on the east. From this district he cites fifty lakes and groups of lakes. Many of these are moraine-dammed, but some of the larger ones, as the Satpor Tso, the Tso Moriri, the Chiun Tso, and the group of l…
Etymology
From French moraine, from Savoyard Italian morena, from Franco-Provençal mor, morre (“muzzle, snout”), from Vulgar Latin *murrum. Compare morion.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mmoraine
- moarine
- moraien
- morainne
- moranie
- moriane
- morraine
- mroaine
- omraine
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of moraine - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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