moitié
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#849
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
moitié is aFrenchnoun. It means: L’une des parties d’un tout divisé, partagé également en deux. Pronounced \mwa.tje\. It ranks #849 in French word frequency. Often confused with morte and monte.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | moitié |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mwa.tje\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #849 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for moitié is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mwa.tje\. Corpus data places it at rank #849 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for moitié, with forms such as "miotié", "mmoitié", and "moiité". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "morte", "monte", "motif", 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 moitié, spelled M-O-I-T-I-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1L’une des parties d’un tout divisé, partagé également en deux.
- 2Portion, une part qui est à peu près de la moitié.
- 3Personne de petite taille.
- 4Conjoint par rapport à sa conjointe, ou conjointe par rapport à son conjoint.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: miotié,mmoitié,moiité,moitie,moittié,moitéi,motiié,omitié
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "moitié"
Frequency rank: #849 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter M in our French index: