mortis
\ˈmor.tis\
The verdict
“mortis” is uncommon French (frequency #75,919 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,919
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Passé du verbe morti (intransitif).
Corpus desk
Index FR-mortis · mortis · French
mortis · rank #75,919 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,919
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH morena
Nearest frequency peer: morena (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « mortis »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Montrose
Montrose
24,084 corpus weight
- morena
morena
24,083 corpus weight
- mortis
mortis
24,082 corpus weight
- mosellan
mosellan
24,081 corpus weight
- motet
motet
24,080 corpus weight
- motivera
motivera
24,079 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mortis » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mortis |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈmor.tis\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #75,919 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mortis » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mortis is uncommon French at frequency #75,919 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ˈmor.tis\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Passé du verbe morti (intransitif).".
Zero misspellings are on record for mortis in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is mortis, spelled M-O-R-T-I-S.
Definition
- 1Passé du verbe morti (intransitif).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mortis appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
(Ekzercaro §23) …kaj la malfeliĉa knabino, multe kurinte kaj trovinte neniun, kiu volus ŝin akcepti, baldaŭ mortis en angulo de arbaro.
(Ekzercaro §25) La pastro, kiu mortis antaŭ nelonge (aŭ antaŭ nelonga tempo), loĝis longe en nia urbo.
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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