morelle
\mo.ʁɛl\
The verdict
“morelle” is uncommon French (frequency #57,433 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,433
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom courant de plantes du genre Solanum, en particulier la morelle douce-amère, ainsi que d’autres solanacées.
Corpus desk
Index FR-morelle · morelle · French
morelle · rank #57,433 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,433
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH moqueurs
Nearest frequency peer: moqueurs (-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 « morelle »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- months
months
42,572 corpus weight
- montrerais
montrerais
42,571 corpus weight
- moqueurs
moqueurs
42,569 corpus weight
- morelle
morelle
42,568 corpus weight
- Morissette
Morissette
42,566 corpus weight
- mortuaires
mortuaires
42,565 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « morelle » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | morelle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mo.ʁɛl\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #57,433 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « morelle » en français
Rare enough to double-check
morelle is uncommon French at frequency #57,433 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mo.ʁɛl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom courant de plantes du genre Solanum, en particulier la morelle douce-amère, ainsi que d’autres solanacées.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for morelle, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is morelle, spelled M-O-R-E-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Nom courant de plantes du genre Solanum, en particulier la morelle douce-amère, ainsi que d’autres solanacées.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how morelle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’aubergine, une morelle elle aussi (Solanum melongena), possède ainsi parfois sur son calice quelques épines qui peuvent faire mal si on la saisit sans précautions.
Synonyms
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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