# mortal

> English word · Adjective · IPA /ˈmɔː.təl/ · frequency rank #8,831

## Definitions
1. Susceptible to death by aging, sickness, injury, or wound; not immortal.
2. Causing death; deadly, fatal, killing, lethal (now only of wounds, injuries etc.).
3. Punishable by death.
4. Fatally vulnerable.
5. Of or relating to the time of death.
6. Affecting as if with power to kill; deathly; related to a life-and-death struggle.
7. Human; belonging or pertaining to people who are mortal.
8. Very painful or tedious; wearisome.
9. Very drunk.
10. Causing spiritual death (the destruction of charity in the soul) and thus, a disruption of one's relationship with God.

## Etymology
From Middle English mortal, mortel, from Old French mortal, and their source Latin mortālis, from mors (“death”). In this sense, displaced native deadly, from Old English dēadlīċ.

## Easily confused with
- **motel** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mortal-vs-motel)
- **mural** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mortal-vs-mural)
- **Morty** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mortal-vs-morty)
- **mortar** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mortal-vs-mortar)
- **Morton** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mortal-vs-morton)
- **Morten** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mortal-vs-morten)
- **mortally** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mortal-vs-mortally)
- **mora** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mora-vs-mortal)
- **mort** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mort-vs-mortal)
- **metal** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/metal-vs-mortal)
- **moral** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/moral-vs-mortal)
- **Moran** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/moran-vs-mortal)
- **Marta** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/marta-vs-mortal)
- **modal** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/modal-vs-mortal)
- **moray** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/moray-vs-mortal)
- **morel** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/morel-vs-mortal)
- **Moria** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/moria-vs-mortal)
- **mental** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mental-vs-mortal)
- **morgan** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/morgan-vs-mortal)
- **morale** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/morale-vs-mortal)

## Common misspellings (9)
`mmortal`, `moratl`, `morrtal`, `mortall`, `mortla`, `morttal`, `motral`, `mrotal`, `omrtal`

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