Morphée
\mɔʁ.fe\
The verdict
“Morphée” is uncommon French (frequency #50,371 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,371
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dieu grec des songes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-morphee · Morphée · French
Morphée · rank #50,371 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,371
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Morice
Nearest frequency peer: Morice (-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 « Morphée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Montel
Montel
49,633 corpus weight
- morgana
morgana
49,632 corpus weight
- Morice
Morice
49,631 corpus weight
- Morphée
Morphée
49,630 corpus weight
- mouret
mouret
49,629 corpus weight
- mourrais
mourrais
49,628 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Morphée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Morphée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \mɔʁ.fe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #50,371 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Morphée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Morphée is uncommon French at frequency #50,371 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \mɔʁ.fe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Dieu grec des songes.".
Morphée doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Morphée, spelled M-O-R-P-H-É-E.
Definition
- 1Dieu grec des songes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Morphée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
De tout ceci, il appert que le seigneur Morphée ne t’a pas visité cette nuit.
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).