Morteau
\mɔʁ.to\
The verdict
“Morteau” is uncommon French (frequency #58,104 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,104
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département du Doubs.
Corpus desk
Index FR-morteau · Morteau · French
Morteau · rank #58,104 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,104
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Montherlant
Nearest frequency peer: Montherlant (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Morteau »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- monocoque
monocoque
41,900 corpus weight
- Monsters
Monsters
41,899 corpus weight
- Montherlant
Montherlant
41,898 corpus weight
- Morteau
Morteau
41,897 corpus weight
- MPEG
MPEG
41,896 corpus weight
- multipliaie…
multipliaient
41,894 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Morteau » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Morteau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \mɔʁ.to\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #58,104 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Morteau » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Morteau is uncommon French at frequency #58,104 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \mɔʁ.to\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for Morteau in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Morteau, spelled M-O-R-T-E-A-U.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département du Doubs.
- 2Village et ancienne commune française, située dans le département de la Haute-Marne intégrée dans la commune de Cirey-lès-Mareilles.
- 3Canton français, situé dans le département du Doubs.
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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