mortaise
\mɔʁ.tɛz\
The verdict
“mortaise” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Entaille, généralement de section rectangulaire, pratiquée dans une pièce de bois ou de métal pour y recevoir le tenon d’une autre pièce quand on veut les assembler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mortaise · mortaise · French
mortaise · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 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 | mortaise |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɔʁ.tɛz\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
mortaise is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \mɔʁ.tɛz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for mortaise in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is mortaise, spelled M-O-R-T-A-I-S-E.
Definition
- 1Entaille, généralement de section rectangulaire, pratiquée dans une pièce de bois ou de métal pour y recevoir le tenon d’une autre pièce quand on veut les assembler.
- 2Vide d'un moufle où l'on met le rouet, trou dans lequel passe la tête du mât de hune.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mortaise appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les deux longs côtés de la mortaise qui répondent à la largeur du tenon , doivent toujours être dirigés parallèlement au fil du bois.
Quand on veut que la cheville fasse tirage, on perce d’abord la mortaise de part en part, le tenon n’y étant pas ; on met le tenon en place, on marque les trous, on retire le tenon, on perce les trous un peu plus haut qu’ils ne doivent l’être.
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.