morillon

\mɔ.ʁi.jɔ̃\

/\mɔ.ʁi.jɔ̃\/ noun

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The verdict

“morillon” is uncommon French (frequency #75,015 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#75,015
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cépage donnant du raisin blanc, il n'est plus cultivé en France.

Corpus desk

Index FR-morillon · morillon · French

morillon · rank #75,015 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #75,015
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH moraines

Nearest frequency peer: moraines (-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 « morillon »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « morillon » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for morillon
PropertyValue
Headwordmorillon
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\mɔ.ʁi.jɔ̃\
Letters8
Frequency rank#75,015
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « morillon » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).morillontombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « moraines » (#75,014), « Mortain » (#75,016), « Mopti » (#75,013). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « morillon » est au #75,015. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

morillon is uncommon French at frequency #75,015 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mɔ.ʁi.jɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 8 senses are on record.

No misspelling variants are generated for morillon in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 morillon, spelled M-O-R-I-L-L-O-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    Cépage donnant du raisin blanc, il n'est plus cultivé en France.
  2. 2
    Synonyme de pinot noir, il entre en particulier dans la composition du champagne.
  3. 3
    Synonyme de pinot noir, il entre en particulier dans la composition du champagne.
  4. 4
    Synonyme de négrette, cépage donnant du raisin noir.
  5. 5
    Champignon voisin de la morille, mais au pied beaucoup plus long et au chapeau très court, conique, brun, à côtes longitudinales et transversales, bon comestible (Mitrophora semilibera).
  6. 6
    Un des noms usuels de Daphne mezereum.
  7. 7
    Nom d’oiseaux de la famille des anatidés :
  8. 8
    Émeraude brute qui se vend au poids.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how morillon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. On cultive depuis plus de cent ans en Styrie le Chardonnay sous le nom de morillon.
  2. Et j’aime aussi ces dignitaires, dont le ventre est une marmite, ou le corps un pâté en croûte, et qui portent, tels les rois mages, qui une hure de cochon, qui un flacon de vin morillon, qui la moutarde de Dijon.

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 "morillon"?
"morillon" is spelled M-O-R-I-L-L-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \mɔ.ʁi.jɔ̃\.
What does "morillon" mean?
As a noun, "morillon" means: Cépage donnant du raisin blanc, il n'est plus cultivé en France.
How do you pronounce "morillon"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "morillon" is \mɔ.ʁi.jɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "morillon", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

moraines#75,014millards#75,006mutilées#75,025meunerie#75,003

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list