morpions
\mɔʁ.pjɔ̃\
The verdict
“morpions” is uncommon French (frequency #80,440 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,440
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de morpion.
Corpus desk
Index FR-morpions · morpions · French
morpions · rank #80,440 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,440
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mormone
Nearest frequency peer: mormone (-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 « morpions »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Monia
Monia
19,564 corpus weight
- montpelliér…
montpelliéraine
19,563 corpus weight
- mormone
mormone
19,562 corpus weight
- morpions
morpions
19,561 corpus weight
- mourvèdre
mourvèdre
19,559 corpus weight
- mujer
mujer
19,558 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « morpions » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | morpions |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɔʁ.pjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #80,440 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « morpions » en français
Rare enough to double-check
morpions is uncommon French at frequency #80,440 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mɔʁ.pjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de morpion.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for morpions in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is morpions, spelled M-O-R-P-I-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de morpion.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how morpions appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et quand j’ai posé les doigts sur les barres de métal un contact tiède et mou, plus proche du plastique que du fer, m’a étonné plus encore : j’ai tâté, forcé un peu, et réalisé que ce morceau que je touchais, là, juste à mon niveau, mais aussi en levant la tête toute la structure du pied, et à coup sûr la tour entière, était en réalité en clipo, oui en cl…
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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