moderne
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,530
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
15
similar word pairs
moderne is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui est soit de notre temps, soit d’un temps plus ou moins rapproché du nôtre, par opposition à antique, à ancien. Pronounced \mɔ.dɛʁn\. It ranks #1,530 in French word frequency. Often confused with morne and moyenne.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | moderne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \mɔ.dɛʁn\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #1,530 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for moderne is 7 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɔ.dɛʁn\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,530 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for moderne, with forms such as "mdoerne", "mmoderne", and "modderne". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "morne", "moyenne", "modeste", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is moderne, spelled M-O-D-E-R-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui est soit de notre temps, soit d’un temps plus ou moins rapproché du nôtre, par opposition à antique, à ancien.
- 2Se dit de celui, de celle qui outre les nouveaux usages, les nouvelles modes.
- 3Qualifie l'architecture qui se développa de 1750 à 1870 et se traduisit à la fois par un retour aux styles du passé et par une recherche de l'innovation ; rassemblant notamment les architectures néo-classique, visionnaire et néo-gothique, elle est précédée de la période baroque et sera suivie de l'architecture contemporaine.
- 4Qualifie la période qui va de la Renaissance à la Révolution française, les XIXᵉ et XXᵉ siècles étant qualifiés de contemporain.
- 5Qui bénéficie, témoigne des progrès effectués dans ces domaines.
- 6Qui s'oppose à l'ordre établi, à la tradition.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: mdoerne,mmoderne,modderne,modenre,moderen,modernne,moderrne,modrene,moedrne,omderne
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for moderne
Misspelling Variants of "moderne"
Frequency rank: #1,530 in French
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