moribonde
\mɔ.ʁi.bɔ̃d\
The verdict
“moribonde” is uncommon French (frequency #61,712 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,712
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celle qui va mourir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-moribonde · moribonde · French
moribonde · rank #61,712 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,712
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH moralistes
Nearest frequency peer: moralistes (-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 « moribonde »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- monterait
monterait
38,291 corpus weight
- moralistes
moralistes
38,290 corpus weight
- moribonde
moribonde
38,289 corpus weight
- motocyclist…
motocyclistes
38,288 corpus weight
- moufles
moufles
38,287 corpus weight
- Moustier
Moustier
38,286 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « moribonde » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | moribonde |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɔ.ʁi.bɔ̃d\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #61,712 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « moribonde » en français
Rare enough to double-check
moribonde is uncommon French at frequency #61,712 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mɔ.ʁi.bɔ̃d\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Celle qui va mourir.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for moribonde, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is moribonde, spelled M-O-R-I-B-O-N-D-E.
Definition
- 1Celle qui va mourir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how moribonde appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] tous les âges, depuis les rides du nouveau-né jusqu'aux rides de la vieille moribonde ; toutes les fantasmagories religieuses, depuis Faune jusqu'à Belzébuth ; tous les profils animaux, depuis la gueule jusqu'au bec, depuis la hure jusqu'au museau.
La ressource dernière pour être entendu d’un agonisant, c’est le contact ou l’imposition des mains sur les mains. Le franciscain le savait, et les yeux de la moribonde s’ouvrirent aussitôt qu’il eut accompli cet acte.
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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