morale

\mɔ.ʁal\

/\mɔ.ʁal\/ noun

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The verdict

“morale” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,685. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#2,685
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Science de la séparation du bien et du mal.

Corpus desk

Index FR-morale · morale · French

morale · rank #2,685 · 8 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #2,685
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH mont

Nearest frequency peer: mont (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « morale »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « morale » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

morale vs more
67% similar
morale vs morte
67% similar
morale vs moule
67% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for morale
PropertyValue
Headwordmorale
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\mɔ.ʁal\
Letters6
Frequency rank#2,685
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « morale »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.moralese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « mont » (#2,684), « niveaux » (#2,686), « micro » (#2,683). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « morale » est au #2,685. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around morale (IPA \mɔ.ʁal\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #2,685 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for morale, with forms such as "mmorale", "moarle", and "morael". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "more", "morte", "moule", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is morale, spelled M-O-R-A-L-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Science de la séparation du bien et du mal.
  2. 2
    Ensemble de doctrines, de règles de conduite, de relations sociales qu'une société se donne et qui varient selon la culture, les croyances, les conditions de vie et les besoins de la société.
  3. 3
    Traité de morale.
  4. 4
    Leçon morale qui se dégage d'un ouvrage, d'une histoire. Souvent quelques phrases de vers ou de prose qui la résument.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how morale appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Nous sommes arrivés, de critique en critique, à cette triste conclusion : […] ; que tous ces mots Droit, Devoir, Morale, Vertu, etc., dont la chaire et l'école font tant de bruit, ne servent à couvrir que de pures hypothèses, de vaines utopies, d'indémontrables préjugés; […].
  2. La morale n'est point dans la superstition, elle n'est pas dans la cérémonie, elle n'a rien de commun avec les dogmes. On ne peut trop répéter que tous les dogmes sont différents, et que la morale est la même chez tous les hommes qui font usage de leur raison.

Synonyms

éthiqueleçon

This word in other languages

morality(English)moraleja(Español)Moral(Deutsch)moral(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • mmorale
  • moarle
  • morael
  • moralle
  • morlae
  • morrale
  • mroale
  • omrale

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of morale - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

mmorale1moarle2morael2moralle1morlae2morrale1mroale2omrale2
Edit distance from "morale"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "morale"?
"morale" is spelled M-O-R-A-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \mɔ.ʁal\.
What does "morale" mean?
As a noun, "morale" means: Science de la séparation du bien et du mal.
What words are commonly confused with "morale"?
"morale" is commonly confused with "more", "morte", "moule". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "morale"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "morale" is \mɔ.ʁal\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "morale" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "morale", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

prénom#2,691réelle#2,694solide#2,695vallée#2,697

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

égard8 variantsdésir8 variantsdisque8 variantscourir8 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list