morillo
The verdict
“morillo” is uncommon French (frequency #71,717 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,717
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chapeau à bords courts, porté en France pendant la Restauration par les royalistes, défenseurs de Pablo Morillo contre Simon Bolivar.
Corpus desk
Index FR-morillo · morillo · French
morillo · rank #71,717 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,717
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Montmédy
Nearest frequency peer: Montmédy (-2 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 « morillo »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- molto
molto
28,290 corpus weight
- Mondeville
Mondeville
28,289 corpus weight
- Montmédy
Montmédy
28,286 corpus weight
- morillo
morillo
28,284 corpus weight
- Morricone
Morricone
28,282 corpus weight
- muezzin
muezzin
28,280 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « morillo » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | morillo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #71,717 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « morillo » en français
Rare enough to double-check
morillo is uncommon French at frequency #71,717 among 5,038 “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
- 1Chapeau à bords courts, porté en France pendant la Restauration par les royalistes, défenseurs de Pablo Morillo contre Simon Bolivar.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how morillo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un flandrin rustre et bougon avec un visage long sous un chapeau à bords courts, un morillo comme on appelle.
C’était le temps de la lutte des républiques de l’Amérique méridionale contre le roi d’Espagne, de Bolivar contre Morillo. Les chapeaux à petits bords étaient royalistes et se nommaient des morillos ; les libéraux portaient des chapeaux à larges bords qui s’appelaient des bolivars.
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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