morphèmes
\mɔʁ.fɛm\
The verdict
“morphèmes” is uncommon French (frequency #97,180 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,180
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de morphème.
Corpus desk
Index FR-morphemes · morphèmes · French
morphèmes · rank #97,180 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,180
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Morland
Nearest frequency peer: Morland (-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 « morphèmes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Moraves
Moraves
2,824 corpus weight
- morbier
morbier
2,823 corpus weight
- Morland
Morland
2,822 corpus weight
- morphèmes
morphèmes
2,821 corpus weight
- mortifiée
mortifiée
2,819 corpus weight
- mpo
mpo
2,817 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « morphèmes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | morphèmes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɔʁ.fɛm\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #97,180 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « morphèmes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
morphèmes is uncommon French at frequency #97,180 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mɔʁ.fɛm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de morphème.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for morphèmes, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is morphèmes, spelled M-O-R-P-H-È-M-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de morphème.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how morphèmes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il a existé, en effet, des morphèmes pronominaux suffixalisés, qui ont pu se confondre avec des morphèmes nominaux.
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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