# morgue

> English word · Noun · IPA /mɔːɡ/ · frequency rank #26,174

## Definitions
1. A supercilious or haughty attitude; arrogance.
2. A building or room where dead bodies are kept before their proper burial or cremation, (now) particularly in legal and law enforcement contexts.
3. The archive and background information division of a newspaper.

## Etymology
Borrowed from French morgue. The second sense developed from the first, via "a prison examination room", probably with reference to the haughty attitude of the jailers.

## Easily confused with
- **Morse** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/morgue-vs-morse)
- **mosque** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/morgue-vs-mosque)
- **more** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/more-vs-morgue)
- **merge** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/merge-vs-morgue)
- **marge** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/marge-vs-morgue)
- **Mogul** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mogul-vs-morgue)
- **morgan** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/morgan-vs-morgue)
- **morale** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/morale-vs-morgue)
- **marque** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/marque-vs-morgue)

## Common misspellings (8)
`mmorgue`, `mogrue`, `morgeu`, `morggue`, `morrgue`, `moruge`, `mrogue`, `omrgue`

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