morceau

\mɔʁ.so\

/\mɔʁ.so\/ noun

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The verdict

“morceau” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,090. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#3,090
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
6
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Portion séparée d’une chose solide qui peut être mangée.

Corpus desk

Index FR-morceau · morceau · French

morceau · rank #3,090 · 9 variants · 6 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #3,090
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH montée

Nearest frequency peer: montée (-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 « morceau »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « morceau » 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).

morceau vs moreau
86% similar
morceau vs morceaux
88% similar
morceau vs marteau
71% similar

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

Key facts for morceau
PropertyValue
Headwordmorceau
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\mɔʁ.so\
Letters7
Frequency rank#3,090
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « morceau »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.morceause 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 « montée » (#3,089), « morceaux » (#3,091), « montagnes » (#3,088). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « morceau » est au #3,090. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around morceau (IPA \mɔʁ.so\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #3,090 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for morceau, with forms such as "mmorceau", "mocreau", and "morcaeu". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "moreau", "morceaux", "marteau", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is morceau, spelled M-O-R-C-E-A-U.

Definition

  1. 1
    Portion séparée d’une chose solide qui peut être mangée.
  2. 2
    Partie séparée d’un corps solide et continu.
  3. 3
    Portion, une partie non séparée, mais distincte et considérée à part.
  4. 4
    Parties, des fragments d’un ouvrage de l’esprit ou d’une œuvre d’art.
  5. 5
    Objet entier, d’un tout considéré par rapport au genre ou à l’espèce dont il fait partie.
  6. 6
    Femme belle et désirable.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Ces considérations nous portaient donc à croire que l’histoire des bouts de corde était le produit de l’imagination de quelque amateur de l’horrible, de ces gens qui ne peuvent voir une hart se balançant à une branche d'arbre sans que leur esprit frappé ne mette un pendu au bout, avec des corbeaux décrivant leur affreuse courbe autour du supplicié pour en…
  2. Gros, petit, bon morceau. — Morceau délicat, friand.

Synonyms

fragmentpartpartiepiècesous-ensemble

Antonyms

tout

This word in other languages

piece(English)pedazo(Español)Stück(Deutsch)bocado(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • mmorceau
  • mocreau
  • morcaeu
  • morcceau
  • morceua
  • morecau
  • morrceau
  • mroceau
  • omrceau

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of morceau - 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.

mmorceau1mocreau2morcaeu2morcceau1morceua2morecau2morrceau1mroceau2
Edit distance from "morceau"

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 "morceau"?
"morceau" is spelled M-O-R-C-E-A-U. The IPA pronunciation is \mɔʁ.so\.
What does "morceau" mean?
As a noun, "morceau" means: Portion séparée d’une chose solide qui peut être mangée.
What words are commonly confused with "morceau"?
"morceau" is commonly confused with "moreau", "morceaux", "marteau". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "morceau"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "morceau" is \mɔʁ.so\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "morceau" come from?
"morceau" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Montage#3,087piscine#3,095restera#3,101reviens#3,102

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

montée9 variantsmanche9 variantsstreet9 variantsdisons9 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list