mortier

/\mɔʁ.tje\/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#13,639

in French word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

mortier is aFrenchnoun. It means: Mélange pâteux, destiné à durcir, d’un liant et d’agrégats, servant à lier et sceller les pierres, les parpaings ou les briques d’une construction. Généralement il s'agit d'un mélange de sable, de ... Pronounced \mɔʁ.tje\. Often confused with mother and motiver.

Key facts for mortier
PropertyValue
Headwordmortier
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\mɔʁ.tje\
Letters7
Frequency rank#13,639
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for mortier is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɔʁ.tje\. Corpus data places it at rank #13,639 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for mortier, with forms such as "mmortier", "moriter", and "morrtier". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mother", "motiver", "mounier", 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 mortier, spelled M-O-R-T-I-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Mélange pâteux, destiné à durcir, d’un liant et d’agrégats, servant à lier et sceller les pierres, les parpaings ou les briques d’une construction. Généralement il s'agit d'un mélange de sable, de ciment ou de chaux et d'eau.
  2. 2
    Sorte de matière pâteuse et épaisse.
  3. 3
    Récipient qui est fait d’une matière dure et résistante (métal, pierre, bois, granit, verre), et dont on se sert pour piler certaines substances que l’on veut réduire en poudre ou en pâte.
  4. 4
    Bouche à feu utilisée pour lancer des boulets comme une bombarde ou un canon court.
  5. 5
    Pièce d’artillerie se chargeant en principe par la bouche, formé d’un tube muni d’un percuteur fixe et tirant des obus avec une trajectoire courbe presque verticale, utilisé dans les opérations d’infanterie, en particulier pour les tirs indirects.
  6. 6
    Sorte de gros pétard qui peut servir de projectile.
  7. 7
    Coiffe de protection du XVIᵉ qui se portait sous le casque.
  8. 8
    Coiffe ronde, comme une toque, de velours noir, bordée de galon d’or, que les présidents et le greffier en chef du parlement français portaient dans l’exercice de leurs fonctions, et qui est encore aujourd’hui la coiffure des présidents des cours de justice.
  9. 9
    Coiffe cérémonielle carrée des universitaires anglo-saxons.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: mmortier,moriter,morrtier,morteir,mortierr,mortire,morttier,motrier,mrotier,omrtier

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for mortier

Misspelling Variants of "mortier"

mmortier8moriter7morrtier8morteir7mortierr8mortire7morttier8motrier7
Misspelling Variants of "mortier"

Frequency rank: #13,639 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "mortier"?
"mortier" is spelled M-O-R-T-I-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \mɔʁ.tje\.
What does "mortier" mean?
As a noun, "mortier" means: Mélange pâteux, destiné à durcir, d’un liant et d’agrégats, servant à lier et sceller les pierres, les parpaings ou les briques d’une construction. Généralement il s'agit d'un mélange de sable, de ...
What words are commonly confused with "mortier"?
"mortier" is commonly confused with "mother", "motiver", "mounier". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "mortier"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "mortier" is \mɔʁ.tje\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "mortier" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.