morillon
\mɔ.ʁi.jɔ̃\
The verdict
“morillon” is uncommon French (frequency #75,015 among 202,672 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,015
- frequency rank, French
- 202,672
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Cépage donnant du raisin blanc, il n'est plus cultivé en France.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | morillon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɔ.ʁi.jɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #75,015 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “morillon” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
morillon is uncommon French at frequency #75,015 among 202,672 “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
- 1Cépage donnant du raisin blanc, il n'est plus cultivé en France.
- 2Synonyme de pinot noir, il entre en particulier dans la composition du champagne.
- 3Synonyme de pinot noir, il entre en particulier dans la composition du champagne.
- 4Synonyme de négrette, cépage donnant du raisin noir.
- 5Champignon 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).
- 6Un des noms usuels de Daphne mezereum.
- 7Nom d’oiseaux de la famille des anatidés :
- 8Émeraude brute qui se vend au poids.
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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Using “morillon”
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- The one correct French spelling is M-O-R-I-L-L-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.