mordre
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#13,429
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
mordre is aFrenchverb. It means: Serrer avec les dents de manière à entamer. Pronounced \mɔʁdʁ\. Often confused with more and morte.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mordre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \mɔʁdʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #13,429 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for mordre is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɔʁdʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #13,429 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 13 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 mordre, with forms such as "mmordre", "modrre", and "morddre". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "more", "morte", "mordu", 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 mordre, spelled M-O-R-D-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Serrer avec les dents de manière à entamer.
- 2Piquer avec le bec ou un dard.
- 3Enserrer fermement.
- 4Prendre du goût pour une étude ou une activité, y faire des progrès.
- 5Saisir, passionner.
- 6Ronger, creuser ou percer.
- 7Saisir l’appât.
- 8Se faire piéger.
- 9Faire subir l’action de l’eau-forte, après avoir découvert en différents endroits, à l’aide d’une pointe à graver, le vernis dont elle est enduite.
- 10Dépasser, déborder.
- 11Border, comme en empiétant.
- 12Médire, reprendre, critiquer, censurer avec âpreté.
- 13Regarder.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: mmordre,modrre,morddre,morder,mordrre,morrde,morrdre,mrodre,omrdre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for mordre
Misspelling Variants of "mordre"
Frequency rank: #13,429 in French
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