moreau
\mɔ.ʁo\
The verdict
“moreau” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,352. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,352
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 19
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a le poil d’un noir foncé, vif et luisant, en parlant d’un cheval.
Corpus desk
Index FR-moreau · moreau · French
moreau · rank #9,352 · 7 variants · 19 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,352
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH moquer
Nearest frequency peer: moquer (-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 « moreau »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- mondiales
mondiales
90,652 corpus weight
- Moon
Moon
90,651 corpus weight
- moquer
moquer
90,650 corpus weight
- moreau
moreau
90,649 corpus weight
- multiplier
multiplier
90,648 corpus weight
- musicales
musicales
90,647 corpus weight
What this shows « moreau » 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 | moreau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \mɔ.ʁo\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #9,352 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « moreau »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around moreau (IPA \mɔ.ʁo\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #9,352 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui a le poil d’un noir foncé, vif et luisant, en parlant d’un cheval.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for moreau, with forms such as "mmoreau", "moerau", and "moraeu". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 19 confusable-pair relationships, "Morel", "moret", "moyeu", 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is moreau, spelled M-O-R-E-A-U.
Definition
- 1Qui a le poil d’un noir foncé, vif et luisant, en parlant d’un cheval.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how moreau appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Aux abords de la forêt, le domaine agreste, ho ! voici que vient le seigneur, il revient encore sur son fougueux cheval moreau, les fers sonnent joyeusement, droit vers la cabane.
Un cheval moreau galopait à sa suite, à toute allure, et sur le cheval se tenait un cavalier en armure noire, portant un heaume orné des ailes d’un rapace.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mmoreau
- moerau
- moraeu
- moreua
- morreau
- mroeau
- omreau
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of moreau - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).