Mornay
\mɔʁ.nɛ\
The verdict
“Mornay” is uncommon French (frequency #56,121 among 202,672 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,121
- frequency rank, French
- 202,672
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département de Saône-et-Loire.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Mornay |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \mɔʁ.nɛ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #56,121 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Mornay” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Mornay is uncommon French at frequency #56,121 among 202,672 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \mɔʁ.nɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Mornay, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Mornay, spelled M-O-R-N-A-Y.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département de Saône-et-Loire.
- 2Village et ancienne commune française, située dans le département de la Côte-d’Or intégrée dans la commune de Montigny-Mornay-Villeneuve-sur-Vingeanne.
- 3village et ancienne commune française, située dans le département de l'Ain intégrée dans la commune de Nurieux-Volognat.
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 “Mornay”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is M-O-R-N-A-Y - 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.