mort-aux-rats
\mɔ.ʁo.ʁa\
The verdict
“mort-aux-rats” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Substance raticide.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mort-aux-rats |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɔ.ʁo.ʁa\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mort-aux-rats” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
mort-aux-rats is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \mɔ.ʁo.ʁa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Substance raticide.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for mort-aux-rats, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is mort-aux-rats, spelled M-O-R-T---A-U-X---R-A-T-S.
Definition
- 1Substance raticide.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “mort-aux-rats”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is M-O-R-T---A-U-X---R-A-T-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \mɔ.ʁo.ʁa\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.