morceau
/ˈmɔː(ɹ)səʊ/
"morceau" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“morceau” is outside the top-ranked English vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A small bit; a morsel or snippet.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | morceau |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈmɔː(ɹ)səʊ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “morceau” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for morceau is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈmɔː(ɹ)səʊ/. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "A small bit; a morsel or snippet.".
morceau doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From French morceau, from Old French morsel, from Medieval Latin morsellum (“a bit, a little piece”), diminutive of Latin morsum (“a bit”), neuter of morsus, past participle of mordeō, mordēre (“bite, nibble, gnaw”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)merd- (“to … The correct English form is morceau, spelled M-O-R-C-E-A-U.
Definition
- 1A small bit; a morsel or snippet.
Etymology
From French morceau, from Old French morsel, from Medieval Latin morsellum (“a bit, a little piece”), diminutive of Latin morsum (“a bit”), neuter of morsus, past participle of mordeō, mordēre (“bite, nibble, gnaw”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)merd- (“to rub, wipe; to pack, rob”). Doublet of morsel.
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.
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Using “morceau”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is M-O-R-C-E-A-U - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.