morcellement
\mɔʁ.sɛl.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“morcellement” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #48,668. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,668
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de morceler ; état de ce qui est morcelé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-morcellement · morcellement · French
morcellement · rank #48,668 · 17 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #48,668
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Montereau
Nearest frequency peer: Montereau (-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 « morcellement »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Milla
Milla
51,336 corpus weight
- mithridate
mithridate
51,335 corpus weight
- Montereau
Montereau
51,334 corpus weight
- morcellement
morcellement
51,333 corpus weight
- Moura
Moura
51,332 corpus weight
- muer
muer
51,330 corpus weight
What this shows « morcellement » 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 | morcellement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɔʁ.sɛl.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #48,668 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « morcellement »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around morcellement (IPA \mɔʁ.sɛl.mɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #48,668 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Action de morceler ; état de ce qui est morcelé.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for morcellement, with forms such as "mmorcellement", "mocrellement", and "morccellement". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "mortellement", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is morcellement, spelled M-O-R-C-E-L-L-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Action de morceler ; état de ce qui est morcelé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how morcellement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il faut, dans l’histoire des idées juridiques en France, tenir grand compte du morcellement de la propriété foncière qui, en multipliant les chefs indépendants d’unités de production, a plus contribué à répandre dans les masses des idées juridiques que les plus beaux traités de philosophie n’en ont répandu dans les classes lettrées.
L’unité optimiste de la nature végétale est morcelée et pour équilibrer ce morcellement, il entoure craintivement le tourbillon de feuilles dans une sorte de nimbe sombre qui protège et qui pèse.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mmorcellement
- mocrellement
- morccellement
- morcelelment
- morcelement
- morcelleemnt
- morcellemennt
- morcellementt
- morcellemetn
- morcellemment
- morcellemnet
- morcellmeent
- morclelement
- morecllement
- morrcellement
- mrocellement
- omrcellement
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of morcellement - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).