morpion
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#70,040
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
morpion is aFrenchnoun. It means: Pou du pubis (Phtirius inguinalis) très tenace qui s’attache aux endroits poilus du corps de l’être humain et peut provoquer une pédiculose pubienne (phtiriase). Pronounced \mɔʁ.pjɔ̃\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | morpion |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɔʁ.pjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #70,040 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for morpion is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɔʁ.pjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #70,040 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.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for morpion in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 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 morpion, spelled M-O-R-P-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pou du pubis (Phtirius inguinalis) très tenace qui s’attache aux endroits poilus du corps de l’être humain et peut provoquer une pédiculose pubienne (phtiriase).
- 2Jeune enfant ou personne de petite taille, souvent employé de façon injurieuse.
- 3Jeu simple visant à aligner successivement des ronds et des croix sur un damier de 3 ou 5 cases.
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Frequency rank: #70,040 in French
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