morceau
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,090
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
morceau is aFrenchnoun. It means: Portion séparée d’une chose solide qui peut être mangée. Pronounced \mɔʁ.so\. It ranks #3,090 in French word frequency. Often confused with moreau and morceaux.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | morceau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɔʁ.so\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #3,090 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for morceau is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɔʁ.so\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,090 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for morceau, with forms such as "mmorceau", "mocreau", and "morcaeu". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "moreau", "morceaux", "marteau", 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 morceau, spelled M-O-R-C-E-A-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Portion séparée d’une chose solide qui peut être mangée.
- 2Partie séparée d’un corps solide et continu.
- 3Portion, une partie non séparée, mais distincte et considérée à part.
- 4Parties, des fragments d’un ouvrage de l’esprit ou d’une œuvre d’art.
- 5Objet entier, d’un tout considéré par rapport au genre ou à l’espèce dont il fait partie.
- 6Femme belle et désirable.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: mmorceau,mocreau,morcaeu,morcceau,morceua,morecau,morrceau,mroceau,omrceau
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for morceau
Misspelling Variants of "morceau"
Frequency rank: #3,090 in French
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