morose
/məˈɹəʊs/
"morose" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“morose” is uncommon English (frequency #56,921 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,921
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour.
Corpus desk
Index EN-morose · morose · English
morose · rank #56,921 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,921
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH momento
Nearest frequency peer: momento (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “morose”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- momento
momento
43,081 corpus weight
- morose
morose
43,080 corpus weight
- mukhtar
mukhtar
43,076 corpus weight
- multilayer
multilayer
43,075 corpus weight
- mungo
mungo
43,072 corpus weight
- munition
munition
43,071 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “morose” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | morose |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /məˈɹəʊs/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #56,921 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “morose” in English
Rare enough to double-check
morose is uncommon English at frequency #56,921 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /məˈɹəʊs/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for morose in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From French morose, from Latin mōrōsus (“particular, scrupulous, fastidious, self-willed, wayward, capricious, fretful, peevish”), from mōs (“way, custom, habit, self-will”). See moral. The correct English form is morose, spelled M-O-R-O-S-E.
Definition
- 1Sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how morose appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
If there is any boy or man who loves to be melancholy and morose, and who cannot enter with kindly sympathy into the regions of fun, let me seriously advise him to shut my book and put it away. It is not meant for him.
Etymology
From French morose, from Latin mōrōsus (“particular, scrupulous, fastidious, self-willed, wayward, capricious, fretful, peevish”), from mōs (“way, custom, habit, self-will”). See moral.
This word in other languages
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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