morro

noun

The verdict

“morro” is uncommon French (frequency #86,940 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#86,940
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Museau.

Corpus desk

Index FR-morro · morro · French

morro · rank #86,940 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #86,940
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH Moscovie

Nearest frequency peer: Moscovie (+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 « morro »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « morro » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for morro
PropertyValue
Headwordmorro
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
Letters5
Frequency rank#86,940
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « morro » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).morrotombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « Moscovie » (#86,941), « motorcycle » (#86,942), « montrerez » (#86,937). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « morro » est au #86,940. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

morro is uncommon French at frequency #86,940 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for morro, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is morro, spelled M-O-R-R-O.

Definition

  1. 1
    Museau.
  2. 2
    Museau.
  3. 3
    Nez (d'un avion...).
  4. 4
    Colline, rocher.
  5. 5
    Toupet.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how morro appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. El morro de este coche es muy grande.
  2. Tener mucho morro / Tener un morro que se lo pisa

Synonyms

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "morro"?
"morro" is spelled M-O-R-R-O.
What does "morro" mean?
As a noun, "morro" means: Museau.
What language does "morro" come from?
"morro" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "morro", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list