mort
/mɔɹt/noun
mort is spelled M-O-R-T: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 1.2 times per million words in written English, the 26,420th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, mort means “Death; especially, the death of game in hunting” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of mort is morts.
How many letters and syllables are in mort?
| Letters | 4: M-O-R-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.2 times per million words; the 26,420th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is mort?
Mort appears 1.2 times per million words in written English, the 26,420th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce mort?
- UK /mɔːt/
- US /mɔɹt/
Mort has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-mort.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with mort?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as mort from its last stressed vowel (/ɔɹt/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of mort
- morts plural
- mot
- mott
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does mort mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Death; especially, the death of game in hunting.
- 2
A note sounded on a horn at the death of a deer.
- 3
ScotlandUKThe skin of a sheep or lamb that has died of disease.
- 4
A variety of dummy whist for three players.
- 5
The exposed or dummy hand of cards in the game of mort.
- 6
A great quantity or number.
- 7
informalA player in a multi-user dungeon who does not have special administrator privileges and whose character can be killed.
- 8
A three-year-old salmon.
- 9
UKobsoleteA woman; a female.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does mort come from?
From Middle English mort, from Old French mort (“death”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).