mœurs
French, noun/mœʁ/
mœurs is spelled M-Œ-U-R-S (5 letters) and appears 5.6 times per million words in written French, the 10,294th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mœurs is a French feminine noun meaning “mores, customs” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Habitudes, naturelles ou acquises, relatives à la pratique du bien ou du mal au sens de la morale”.
What does mœurs mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininemores, customs
- 2
colloquialfeminineellipsis of police des mœurs (“vice police”)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Habitudes, naturelles ou acquises, relatives à la pratique du bien ou du mal au sens de la morale. 2. Ces pratiques lorsqu’elles jouissent d’une bonne considération sociale. 3. Police des mœurs, brigade des mœurs. 4. Manière de vivre, usages, habitudes ou coutumes particulières de chaque nation.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
How do you pronounce mœurs?
- /mœʁ/
- /mœʁs/
- \mœʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to mœurs
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is mœurs in French?
mœurs appears 5.6 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).