morale

/\mɔ.ʁal\/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#2,685

in French word usage

Misspellings

8

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

morale is aFrenchnoun. It means: Science de la séparation du bien et du mal. Pronounced \mɔ.ʁal\. It ranks #2,685 in French word frequency. Often confused with more and morte.

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)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of morale in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for morale is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɔ.ʁal\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,685 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for morale, with forms such as "mmorale", "moarle", and "morael". 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, "more", "morte", "moule", 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 morale, spelled M-O-R-A-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

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.

Synonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: mmorale,moarle,morael,moralle,morlae,morrale,mroale,omrale

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for morale

Misspelling Variants of "morale"

mmorale7moarle6morael6moralle7morlae6morrale7mroale6omrale6
Misspelling Variants of "morale"

Frequency rank: #2,685 in French

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?
"morale" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.