mort de rire
\mɔʁ də ʁiʁ\
The verdict
“mort de rire” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an adjective - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Forme emphatique pour signifier une grande hilarité.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mort de rire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \mɔʁ də ʁiʁ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mort de rire” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for mort de rire is 12 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɔʁ də ʁiʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for mort de rire in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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 mort de rire, spelled M-O-R-T- -D-E- -R-I-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Forme emphatique pour signifier une grande hilarité.
- 2Utilisé pour rappeler le sérieux de la situation, pour exprimer le manque de réceptivité à l’humour.
- 3Tué par une crise de rire.
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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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- The one correct French spelling is M-O-R-T- -D-E- -R-I-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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