morillo

noun

The verdict

“morillo” is uncommon French (frequency #71,717 among 202,672 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#71,717
frequency rank, French
202,672
“M” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Chapeau à bords courts, porté en France pendant la Restauration par les royalistes, défenseurs de Pablo Morillo contre Simon Bolivar.

Key facts for morillo
PropertyValue
Headwordmorillo
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
Letters7
Frequency rank#71,717
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “morillo” sits in French frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). morillo lands here:

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Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

morillo is uncommon French at frequency #71,717 among 202,672 “M” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Chapeau à bords courts, porté en France pendant la Restauration par les royalistes, défenseurs de Pablo Morillo contre Simon Bolivar.".

morillo has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is morillo, spelled M-O-R-I-L-L-O.

Definition

  1. 1
    Chapeau à bords courts, porté en France pendant la Restauration par les royalistes, défenseurs de Pablo Morillo contre Simon Bolivar.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "morillo"?
"morillo" is spelled M-O-R-I-L-L-O.
What does "morillo" mean?
As a noun, "morillo" means: Chapeau à bords courts, porté en France pendant la Restauration par les royalistes, défenseurs de Pablo Morillo contre Simon Bolivar.
What language does "morillo" come from?
"morillo" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Using “morillo”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is M-O-R-I-L-L-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words

Other uncommon French words near this rank

Data Source

Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list FrequencyWords open word-frequency list