mortel
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mortel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \mɔʁ.tɛl\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #7,600 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 1Qui est sujet à la mort, par opposition à l’immortalité ou à la divinité.
- 2Qui cause la mort ; qui paraît devoir la causer.
- 3Qualifie une émotion très vive, très forte.
- 4Qualifie un ennemi que l’on hait profondément, et le sentiment de haine que l’on a à son encontre.
- 5Qualifie une forme de péché qui fait perdre la grâce de Dieu et qui donne une sorte de mort à l’âme.
- 6Ennuyeux à mourir.
- 7Cool ; génial.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: mmortel,moretl,morrtel,mortell,mortle,morttel,motrel,mrotel,omrtel
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "mortel"
Frequency rank: #7,600 in French
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