morde
\mɔʁd\
The verdict
“morde” is uncommon French (frequency #66,124 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,124
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de mordre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-morde · morde · French
morde · rank #66,124 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,124
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH montjoie
Nearest frequency peer: montjoie (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « morde »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- modélisé
modélisé
33,880 corpus weight
- Montgeron
Montgeron
33,879 corpus weight
- montjoie
montjoie
33,878 corpus weight
- morde
morde
33,877 corpus weight
- morphologiq…
morphologiquement
33,876 corpus weight
- mossi
mossi
33,875 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « morde » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | morde |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \mɔʁd\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #66,124 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « morde » en français
Rare enough to double-check
morde is uncommon French at frequency #66,124 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \mɔʁd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for morde in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is morde, spelled M-O-R-D-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de mordre.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de mordre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how morde appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Partagée entre laisser traîner ma tong sur son passage pour qu’elle morde la poussière ou choper sa crinière pour étoffer mon trophée de chasse, j’ai préféré déconvulser plus loin.
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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