mort-vivant
\mɔʁ.vi.vɑ̃\
The verdict
“mort-vivant” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cadavre qui se meut comme s’il était animé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mort-vivant · mort-vivant · French
mort-vivant · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mort-vivant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɔʁ.vi.vɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
mort-vivant is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \mɔʁ.vi.vɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for mort-vivant in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is mort-vivant, spelled M-O-R-T---V-I-V-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Cadavre qui se meut comme s’il était animé.
- 2Personne, homme ou femme, qui est si affaiblie qu’elle semble morte ou près de mourir.
- 3Personne très peu active.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mort-vivant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce film de zombies taïwanais, qui a fait scandale au festival de Gérardmer, n’a pas volé son interdiction aux moins de 16 ans ! Non seulement il est gorissime, mais il suit des morts-vivants dont la libido débordante présente des séquences à réserver aux âmes bien trempées.
« J'aime encore plus les bonbons que les cadeaux ! » s'est exclamé Thomas , un mort-vivant de neuf ans qui passait l'Halloween non loin.
This word in other languages
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.