morne
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#23,945
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
morne is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui est d’une tristesse sombre, allant jusqu’à l’abattement. Pronounced \mɔʁn\. Often confused with mort and move.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | morne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \mɔʁn\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #23,945 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for morne is 5 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɔʁn\. Corpus data places it at rank #23,945 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for morne, with forms such as "mmorne", "monre", and "moren". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mort", "move", "mûre", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is morne, spelled M-O-R-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui est d’une tristesse sombre, allant jusqu’à l’abattement.
- 2Qualifie un temps obscur et couvert.
- 3Qualifie une couleur sombre, obscure, qui n’a ni vivacité ni éclat.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: mmorne,monre,moren,mornne,morrne,mrone,omrne
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for morne
Misspelling Variants of "morne"
Frequency rank: #23,945 in French
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