moral
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,839
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
moral is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui concerne les mœurs. Pronounced \mɔ.ʁal\. It ranks #2,839 in French word frequency. Often confused with mort and more.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | moral |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \mɔ.ʁal\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #2,839 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for moral is 5 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɔ.ʁal\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,839 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for moral, with forms such as "mmoral", "moarl", and "morall". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mort", "more", "Mord", 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 moral, spelled M-O-R-A-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui concerne les mœurs.
- 2Relatif au sens du bien et du mal.
- 3Qui a des mœurs, qui a des principes et une conduite conforme à la morale.
- 4Qui est conforme aux bonnes mœurs.
- 5Qui ne tombe pas sous les sens. Dans cette acception, il est opposé à physique.
- 6Qui a pour principe les seules lumières de la raison, par opposition à surnaturel.
- 7Se dit d’une assemblée ou d’un groupement qui a la capacité à ester en justice.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: mmoral,moarl,morall,morla,morral,mroal,omral
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "moral"
Frequency rank: #2,839 in French
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Nearby French words
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