mortelle
\mɔʁ.tɛl\
The verdict
“mortelle” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,540. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,540
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Femme destinée à mourir un jour.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mortelle · mortelle · French
mortelle · rank #10,540 · 10 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,540
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH montants
Nearest frequency peer: montants (-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 « mortelle »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- model
model
89,464 corpus weight
- modifie
modifie
89,463 corpus weight
- montants
montants
89,462 corpus weight
- mortelle
mortelle
89,461 corpus weight
- nager
nager
89,460 corpus weight
- nain
nain
89,459 corpus weight
What this shows « mortelle » 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 | mortelle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɔʁ.tɛl\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #10,540 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « mortelle »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around mortelle (IPA \mɔʁ.tɛl\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,540 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Femme destinée à mourir un jour.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for mortelle, with forms such as "mmortelle", "moretlle", and "morrtelle". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "Moselle", "mortels", "myrtille", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is mortelle, spelled M-O-R-T-E-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Femme destinée à mourir un jour.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mortelle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La faiblesse aux humains n’est que trop naturelle ; Mortelle, subissez le sort d’une mortelle.
« Des mortelles ! dit Héra dans un souffle. Tu as amené des mortelles dans l’Olympe ! Tu sais bien que c’est défendu. »
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mmortelle
- moretlle
- morrtelle
- mortele
- mortelel
- mortlele
- morttelle
- motrelle
- mrotelle
- omrtelle
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mortelle - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "mortelle", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).