mornes
\mɔʁn\
The verdict
“mornes” is uncommon French (frequency #68,479 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,479
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de morne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mornes · mornes · French
mornes · rank #68,479 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,479
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Morello
Nearest frequency peer: Morello (-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 « mornes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Montréalais…
Montréalaises
31,526 corpus weight
- moralisatri…
moralisatrice
31,525 corpus weight
- Morello
Morello
31,523 corpus weight
- mornes
mornes
31,522 corpus weight
- Mre
Mre
31,519 corpus weight
- mts
mts
31,518 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mornes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mornes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \mɔʁn\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #68,479 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mornes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mornes is uncommon French at frequency #68,479 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \mɔʁn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de morne.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for mornes, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is mornes, spelled M-O-R-N-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de morne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mornes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quand ils entrent au cabaret, ils sont mornes, défaits et languissants ; peu après qu’ils ont pris deux ou trois tasses de ce breuvage, ils sont hargneux et comme enragés ; tout leur déplait, ils rebutent tout et s’entre-querellent.
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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