moraines
\mɔ.ʁɛn\
The verdict
“moraines” is uncommon French (frequency #75,014 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,014
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de moraine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-moraines · moraines · French
moraines · rank #75,014 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,014
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Mopti
Nearest frequency peer: Mopti (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « moraines »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Montet
Montet
24,990 corpus weight
- montrachet
montrachet
24,989 corpus weight
- Mopti
Mopti
24,988 corpus weight
- moraines
moraines
24,987 corpus weight
- morillon
morillon
24,986 corpus weight
- Mortain
Mortain
24,985 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « moraines » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | moraines |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɔ.ʁɛn\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #75,014 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « moraines » en français
Rare enough to double-check
moraines is uncommon French at frequency #75,014 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mɔ.ʁɛn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de moraine.".
moraines doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is moraines, spelled M-O-R-A-I-N-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de moraine.
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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