moder
\mɔ.dɛʁ\
The verdict
“moder” is uncommon French (frequency #66,915 among 202,672 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,915
- frequency rank, French
- 202,672
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Type d’humus intermédiaire entre le mull et le mor, formé en sol moyennement oxygéné, généralement acide, caractérisé par une décomposition relativement lente de la matière organique, une moindre a...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | moder |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɔ.dɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #66,915 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “moder” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
moder is uncommon French at frequency #66,915 among 202,672 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mɔ.dɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Type d’humus intermédiaire entre le mull et le mor, formé en sol moyennement oxygéné, généralement acide, caractérisé par une décomposition relativement lente de la matière organique, une moindre a...".
No generated misspelling entries exist for moder in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is moder, spelled M-O-D-E-R.
Definition
- 1Type d’humus intermédiaire entre le mull et le mor, formé en sol moyennement oxygéné, généralement acide, caractérisé par une décomposition relativement lente de la matière organique, une moindre activité bactérienne et une forte présence de champignons.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “moder”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is M-O-D-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.