mortification

/\mɔʁ.ti.fi.ka.sjɔ̃\/ noun

Letters

13 characters

Frequency Rank

#85,038

in French word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

mortification is aFrenchnoun. It means: État d’un tissu ou d’un organe qui se décompose et devient comme mort. Pronounced \mɔʁ.ti.fi.ka.sjɔ̃\.

Key facts for mortification
PropertyValue
Headwordmortification
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\mɔʁ.ti.fi.ka.sjɔ̃\
Letters13
Frequency rank#85,038
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for mortification is 13 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɔʁ.ti.fi.ka.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #85,038 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for mortification in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 mortification, spelled M-O-R-T-I-F-I-C-A-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    État d’un tissu ou d’un organe qui se décompose et devient comme mort.
  2. 2
    Action de garder certaines viandes pour qu’elles deviennent tendres et gagnent du fumet.
  3. 3
    Action par laquelle on mortifie son corps ou ses passions.
  4. 4
    Pratique d'ascèse religieuse consistant à s'imposer une souffrance, en général physique, dans le but de progresser spirituellement.
  5. 5
    Accidents fâcheux qui arrivent dans la vie.
  6. 6
    Chagrin, humiliation qu’on fait éprouver à une personne par quelque réprimande ou par quelque procédé dur et fâcheux.

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Frequency rank: #85,038 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "mortification"?
"mortification" is spelled M-O-R-T-I-F-I-C-A-T-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \mɔʁ.ti.fi.ka.sjɔ̃\.
What does "mortification" mean?
As a noun, "mortification" means: État d’un tissu ou d’un organe qui se décompose et devient comme mort.
How do you pronounce "mortification"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "mortification" is \mɔʁ.ti.fi.ka.sjɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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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.