mortis

\ˈmor.tis\

/\ˈmor.tis\/ verb

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

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mortis » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for mortis
PropertyValue
Headwordmortis
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ˈmor.tis\
Letters6
Frequency rank#75,919
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « mortis » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).mortistombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « morena » (#75,918), « mosellan » (#75,920), « Montrose » (#75,917). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « mortis » est au #75,919. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Passé du verbe morti (intransitif).

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how mortis appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. (Ekzercaro §23) …kaj la malfeliĉa knabino, multe kurinte kaj trovinte neniun, kiu volus ŝin akcepti, baldaŭ mortis en angulo de arbaro.
  2. (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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "mortis"?
"mortis" is spelled M-O-R-T-I-S. The IPA pronunciation is \ˈmor.tis\.
What does "mortis" mean?
As a verb, "mortis" means: Passé du verbe morti (intransitif).
How do you pronounce "mortis"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "mortis" is \ˈmor.tis\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "mortis", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list