morbidité

\mɔʁ.bi.di.te\

/\mɔʁ.bi.di.te\/ noun

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The verdict

“morbidité” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #49,236. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#49,236
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords
14
tracked misspellings
2
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Caractère maladif ; ensemble des causes qui peuvent produire une maladie.

Corpus desk

Index FR-morbidite · morbidité · French

morbidité · rank #49,236 · 14 variants · 2 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #49,236
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 14 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH montfaucon

Nearest frequency peer: montfaucon (-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 « morbidité »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « morbidité » 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).

morbidité vs morbide
67% similar
morbidité vs mobilité
78% similar

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

Key facts for morbidité
PropertyValue
Headwordmorbidité
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\mɔʁ.bi.di.te\
Letters9
Frequency rank#49,236
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « morbidité »

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

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « montfaucon » (#49,235), « Mordor » (#49,237), « montais » (#49,234). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « morbidité » est au #49,236. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 14 spelling variants around morbidité (IPA \mɔʁ.bi.di.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #49,236 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for morbidité, with forms such as "mmorbidité", "mobridité", and "morbbidité". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "morbide", "mobilité", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 morbidité, spelled M-O-R-B-I-D-I-T-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    Caractère maladif ; ensemble des causes qui peuvent produire une maladie.
  2. 2
    Nombre absolu ou relatif des malades dans un groupe donné et pendant un temps déterminé.
  3. 3
    Caractère morbide, malsain.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. On sait, en effet, qu'à partir de 300-350 m., tant en Lorraine que dans les Vosges triasiques saônoises, le Chêne présente de bonne heure des signes de morbidité (gélivure, maladies cryptogamiques).
  2. Des léthalités fortes (plus de 12 %) sont notées dans les départements du Finistère, de l'Indre-et-Loire, de la Seine-et-Marne, de l'Ardèche, du Gers, de la Haute-Garonne et de l'Aude. Il s'agit de départements dont la morbidité et la mortalité diphtériques ne sont pas élevées.

This word in other languages

morbidity(English)morbilidad(Español)Morbidität(Deutsch)morbidade(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • mmorbidité
  • mobridité
  • morbbidité
  • morbdiité
  • morbiddité
  • morbidite
  • morbiditté
  • morbidiét
  • morbidtié
  • morbiidté
  • moribdité
  • morrbidité
  • mrobidité
  • omrbidité

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of morbidité - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

mmorbidité1mobridité2morbbidité1morbdiité2morbiddité1morbidite1morbiditté1morbidiét2
Edit distance from "morbidité"

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 "morbidité"?
"morbidité" is spelled M-O-R-B-I-D-I-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \mɔʁ.bi.di.te\.
What does "morbidité" mean?
As a noun, "morbidité" means: Caractère maladif ; ensemble des causes qui peuvent produire une maladie.
What words are commonly confused with "morbidité"?
"morbidité" is commonly confused with "morbide", "mobilité". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "morbidité"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "morbidité" is \mɔʁ.bi.di.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "morbidité" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

modélisme#49,227mégaphone#49,247numérisés#49,253octroyées#49,254

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).

plongeons14 variantspléonasme14 variantsLagerfeld14 variantsprévalait14 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list