mordiller
\mɔʁ.di.je\
The verdict
“mordiller” is uncommon French (frequency #67,709 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,709
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mordre légèrement et à plusieurs reprises.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mordiller · mordiller · French
mordiller · rank #67,709 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,709
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH montanier
Nearest frequency peer: montanier (-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 « mordiller »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mola
mola
32,295 corpus weight
- mononucléose
mononucléose
32,294 corpus weight
- montanier
montanier
32,293 corpus weight
- mordiller
mordiller
32,292 corpus weight
- morflé
morflé
32,291 corpus weight
- moulants
moulants
32,289 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mordiller » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mordiller |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \mɔʁ.di.je\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #67,709 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mordiller » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mordiller is uncommon French at frequency #67,709 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \mɔʁ.di.je\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Mordre légèrement et à plusieurs reprises.".
No misspelling variants are generated for mordiller in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is mordiller, spelled M-O-R-D-I-L-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Mordre légèrement et à plusieurs reprises.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mordiller appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cet enfant mordille tout ce qu’il a dans les mains.
Les machines à battre peuvent rouler derrière des bœufs inconnus, les automobiles s’arrêter pour faire de l’eau à leur fontaine, eux continuent, indifférents, à arracher un clou de leurs sabots, à observer un canard qui mordille un des os que les chiens n’ont pas trouvés.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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