morgues
\mɔʁɡ\
The verdict
“morgues” is uncommon French (frequency #95,079 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,079
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de morgue.
Corpus desk
Index FR-morgues · morgues · French
morgues · rank #95,079 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,079
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH morfond
Nearest frequency peer: morfond (-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 « morgues »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Montretout
Montretout
4,925 corpus weight
- Morelos
Morelos
4,924 corpus weight
- morfond
morfond
4,923 corpus weight
- morgues
morgues
4,922 corpus weight
- Moudon
Moudon
4,921 corpus weight
- mouillait
mouillait
4,920 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « morgues » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | morgues |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɔʁɡ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #95,079 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « morgues » en français
Rare enough to double-check
morgues is uncommon French at frequency #95,079 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mɔʁɡ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de morgue.".
morgues doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is morgues, spelled M-O-R-G-U-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de morgue.
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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