mortel

/\mɔʁ.tɛl\/ adj

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#7,600

in French word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

mortel is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui est sujet à la mort, par opposition à l’immortalité ou à la divinité. Pronounced \mɔʁ.tɛl\. It ranks #7,600 in French word frequency. Often confused with morts and Motte.

Key facts for mortel
PropertyValue
Headwordmortel
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\mɔʁ.tɛl\
Letters6
Frequency rank#7,600
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of mortel in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for mortel is 6 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɔʁ.tɛl\. Corpus data places it at rank #7,600 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for mortel, with forms such as "mmortel", "moretl", and "morrtel". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "morts", "Motte", "morue", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is mortel, spelled M-O-R-T-E-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui est sujet à la mort, par opposition à l’immortalité ou à la divinité.
  2. 2
    Qui cause la mort ; qui paraît devoir la causer.
  3. 3
    Qualifie une émotion très vive, très forte.
  4. 4
    Qualifie un ennemi que l’on hait profondément, et le sentiment de haine que l’on a à son encontre.
  5. 5
    Qualifie une forme de péché qui fait perdre la grâce de Dieu et qui donne une sorte de mort à l’âme.
  6. 6
    Ennuyeux à mourir.
  7. 7
    Cool ; génial.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: mmortel,moretl,morrtel,mortell,mortle,morttel,motrel,mrotel,omrtel

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for mortel

Misspelling Variants of "mortel"

mmortel7moretl6morrtel7mortell7mortle6morttel7motrel6mrotel6
Misspelling Variants of "mortel"

Frequency rank: #7,600 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "mortel"?
"mortel" is spelled M-O-R-T-E-L. The IPA pronunciation is \mɔʁ.tɛl\.
What does "mortel" mean?
As an adj, "mortel" means: Qui est sujet à la mort, par opposition à l’immortalité ou à la divinité.
What words are commonly confused with "mortel"?
"mortel" is commonly confused with "morts", "Motte", "morue". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "mortel"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "mortel" is \mɔʁ.tɛl\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "mortel" come from?
"mortel" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.