mortal
\ˈmɔːtəl\
The verdict
“mortal” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #41,414. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #41,414
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mortel
Corpus desk
Index FR-mortal · mortal · French
mortal · rank #41,414 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,414
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mordent
Nearest frequency peer: mordent (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « mortal »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- mollement
mollement
58,590 corpus weight
- Monfort
Monfort
58,589 corpus weight
- mordent
mordent
58,588 corpus weight
- mortal
mortal
58,587 corpus weight
- mourants
mourants
58,586 corpus weight
- multilingue
multilingue
58,585 corpus weight
What this shows « mortal » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mortal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈmɔːtəl\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #41,414 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « mortal »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around mortal (IPA \ˈmɔːtəl\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #41,414 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Mortel".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for mortal, with forms such as "mmortal", "moratl", and "morrtal". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "morts", "morte", "motel", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is mortal, spelled M-O-R-T-A-L.
Definition
- 1Mortel
Antonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mmortal
- moratl
- morrtal
- mortall
- mortla
- morttal
- motral
- mrotal
- omrtal
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mortal - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).