mortalité

Name: mortalité, French Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

\mɔʁ.ta.li.te\

/\mɔʁ.ta.li.te\/ noun

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“mortalité” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,599. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#7,599
frequency rank, French: 5,038
“M” headwords: 14
tracked misspellings: 4
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Condition de ce qui est sujet à la mort.

Corpus desk

Index FR-mortalite · mortalité · French

mortalité · rank #7,599 · 14 variants · 4 confusables

FREQ-COMMON #7,599
LEN-LONG 9 letters
VOW-4 4 vowels
CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
VAR-HIGH 14 variants
BOOK-DENSE 5,038
PHOTO-FINISH monopole

Nearest frequency peer: monopole (-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.

Mercedes

92,405
modération

92,404
monopole

92,403
mortalité

92,402
mortel

92,401
mutuelle

92,399

What this shows « mortalité » 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).

mortalité vs moralité

89% similar

mortalité vs modalité

78% similar

mortalité vs mentalité

78% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for mortalité
Property	Value
Headword	mortalité
Language	French
Part of speech	Noun
IPA	\mɔʁ.ta.li.te\
Letters	9
Frequency rank	#7,599
Misspellings tracked	14
Confusable pairs	4
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « mortalité »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).mortalitése place ici:

#7,599

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « monopole » (#7,598), « mortel » (#7,600), « modération » (#7,597). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « mortalité » est au #7,599. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 14 spelling variants around mortalité (IPA \mɔʁ.ta.li.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,599 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for mortalité, with forms such as "mmortalité", "moratlité", and "morrtalité". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "moralité", "modalité", "mentalité", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 mortalité, spelled M-O-R-T-A-L-I-T-É.

Definition

1
Condition de ce qui est sujet à la mort.
2
Mort d’une quantité plus ou moins considérable d’hommes ou d’animaux qui sont emportés en peu de temps par la même maladie.
3
Quantité d’individus de l’espèce humaine qui meurent annuellement, sur un certain nombre de vivants.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how mortalité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

L’humaine mortalité. — La mortalité universelle.
[…] il est improbable, pour ne pas dire absurde, de supposer stationnaire durant trente huit ans la population d’un pays qui pendant cette longue période n’a éprouvé ni de très grandes disettes, ni de mortalité extraordinaire, ni de guerre civile et étrangère d’aucune importance.

This word in other languages

mortality(English)mortalidad(Español)Mortalität(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

mmortalité
moratlité
morrtalité
mortailté
mortalite
mortalitté
mortaliét
mortallité
mortaltié
mortlaité
morttalité
motralité
mrotalité
omrtalité

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mortalité - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

Edit distance from "mortalité"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "mortalité"?

"mortalité" is spelled M-O-R-T-A-L-I-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \mɔʁ.ta.li.te\.

What does "mortalité" mean?

As a noun, "mortalité" means: Condition de ce qui est sujet à la mort.

What words are commonly confused with "mortalité"?

"mortalité" is commonly confused with "moralité", "modalité", "mentalité". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.

How do you pronounce "mortalité"?

The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "mortalité" is \mɔʁ.ta.li.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.

What language does "mortalité" come from?

"mortalité" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.

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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "mortalité", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

mentalité#7,595 masculine#7,594 magistrat#7,588 proposées#7,611

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).

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