morfondre
\mɔʁ.fɔ̃dʁ\
The verdict
“morfondre” is uncommon French (frequency #52,846 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,846
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Refroidir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-morfondre · morfondre · French
morfondre · rank #52,846 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,846
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH moscovites
Nearest frequency peer: moscovites (+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 « morfondre »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- moira
moira
47,159 corpus weight
- Mond
Mond
47,158 corpus weight
- morfondre
morfondre
47,155 corpus weight
- moscovites
moscovites
47,154 corpus weight
- multifoncti…
multifonctions
47,152 corpus weight
- murmura
murmura
47,151 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « morfondre » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | morfondre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \mɔʁ.fɔ̃dʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #52,846 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « morfondre » en français
Rare enough to double-check
morfondre is uncommon French at frequency #52,846 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \mɔʁ.fɔ̃dʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
morfondre doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 morfondre, spelled M-O-R-F-O-N-D-R-E.
Definition
- 1Refroidir.
- 2Refroidir.
- 3Se refroidir.
- 4Perdre du temps à la poursuite d’une affaire, d’une entreprise qui ne réussit pas, dans l’attente d’une personne qui n’arrive pas, d’un succès qu’on n’obtient pas.
- 5Perdre la force de fermentation qu’une pâte doit avoir pour faire du bon pain.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how morfondre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L'air glacial de la nuit l'a morfondu.
En tout cas, quelque persuadés qu’ils pussent être d’un pays qui se « déchristianise » est tout près de s’abimer dans la décadence, ils n’auraient pas dû faire l’éloge de ces sombres perspectives devant des jeunes hommes qu’ils morfondaient, dont ils s’exposaient à briser les élans de noblesse, à tarir les enthousiasmes.
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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