morbide
\mɔʁ.bid\
The verdict
“morbide” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,005. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,005
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à la maladie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-morbide · morbide · French
morbide · rank #22,005 · 10 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,005
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH monet
Nearest frequency peer: monet (-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 « morbide »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- militantes
militantes
77,999 corpus weight
- modulation
modulation
77,998 corpus weight
- monet
monet
77,997 corpus weight
- morbide
morbide
77,996 corpus weight
- Morrison
Morrison
77,995 corpus weight
- mouillée
mouillée
77,994 corpus weight
What this shows « morbide » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | morbide |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \mɔʁ.bid\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #22,005 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « morbide »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around morbide (IPA \mɔʁ.bid\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #22,005 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for morbide, with forms such as "mmorbide", "mobride", and "morbbide". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "morbidité", "mobile", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is morbide, spelled M-O-R-B-I-D-E.
Definition
- 1Relatif à la maladie.
- 2Qui est malsain ou pervers.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how morbide appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le mouillage est une véritable adultération du lait, car non seulement il diminue ses qualités nutritives, mais il introduit directement dans un aliment populaire les germes morbides que peuvent contenir les eaux de toute provenance employées par les falsificateurs.
Parce qu'elle est mutilation psychologique, et s'accompagne généralement de pratiques mortificatoires, l’adhésion idéologique doit être considérée comme un état morbide, même si elle est socialement acceptée, devenant par là psychose socialisée.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mmorbide
- mobride
- morbbide
- morbdie
- morbidde
- morbied
- moribde
- morrbide
- mrobide
- omrbide
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of morbide - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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