mordicus
\mɔʁ.di.kys\
The verdict
“mordicus” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #49,803. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,803
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sans en démordre ; avec ténacité ; avec obstination.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mordicus · mordicus · French
mordicus · rank #49,803 · 12 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #49,803
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH moquée
Nearest frequency peer: moquée (-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 « mordicus »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- mondialisé
mondialisé
50,201 corpus weight
- Monza
Monza
50,200 corpus weight
- moquée
moquée
50,199 corpus weight
- mordicus
mordicus
50,198 corpus weight
- Movistar
Movistar
50,197 corpus weight
- MSG
MSG
50,196 corpus weight
What this shows « mordicus » 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 | mordicus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \mɔʁ.di.kys\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #49,803 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « mordicus »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around mordicus (IPA \mɔʁ.di.kys\), anadverb. Corpus frequency is #49,803 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Sans en démordre ; avec ténacité ; avec obstination.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for mordicus, with forms such as "mmordicus", "modricus", and "mordcius". 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, "mordus", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is mordicus, spelled M-O-R-D-I-C-U-S.
Definition
- 1Sans en démordre ; avec ténacité ; avec obstination.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mordicus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle se mourait enfin, que le docteur soutenait de plus belle mordicus, qu’elle était constituée pour cent ans de vie et qu’elle recouvrerait la santé.
Et chacun expliquait le signe, à sa façon ; bien entendu, chacun soutenait mordicus que seul son sens était le bon.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mmordicus
- modricus
- mordcius
- morddicus
- mordiccus
- mordicsu
- mordicuss
- mordiucs
- moridcus
- morrdicus
- mrodicus
- omrdicus
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mordicus - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).