morale
/məˈɹɑːl/
"morale" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“morale” has 8 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #11,917. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,917
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The capacity of people to maintain belief in an institution or a goal, or even in oneself and others.
Corpus desk
Index EN-morale · morale · English
morale · rank #11,917 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,917
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH misconduct
Nearest frequency peer: misconduct (-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 “morale”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- maternity
maternity
88,087 corpus weight
- misconduct
misconduct
88,085 corpus weight
- morale
morale
88,084 corpus weight
- mornings
mornings
88,083 corpus weight
- mute
mute
88,082 corpus weight
- needless
needless
88,081 corpus weight
What this shows “morale” 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 | morale |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /məˈɹɑːl/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #11,917 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “morale”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around morale (IPA /məˈɹɑːl/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,917 among 4,057 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "The capacity of people to maintain belief in an institution or a goal, or even in oneself and others.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for morale, with forms such as "mmorale", "moarle", and "morael". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "more", "Morse", "mural", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from French morale. The correct English form is morale, spelled M-O-R-A-L-E.
Definition
- 1The capacity of people to maintain belief in an institution or a goal, or even in oneself and others.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how morale appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
After the layoffs, morale was at an all time low; the staff were so dispirited nothing was getting done.
Morale is an important quality in soldiers. With good morale they'll charge into a hail of bullets; without it they won't even cross a street.
Etymology
Borrowed from French morale.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mmorale
- moarle
- morael
- moralle
- morlae
- morrale
- mroale
- omrale
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of morale - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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