morue
\mɔ.ʁy\
The verdict
“morue” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,338. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,338
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Poisson de mer du genre Gadus.
Corpus desk
Index FR-morue · morue · French
morue · rank #22,338 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,338
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH moqué
Nearest frequency peer: moqué (-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 « morue »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Montfort
Montfort
77,666 corpus weight
- Montigny
Montigny
77,665 corpus weight
- moqué
moqué
77,664 corpus weight
- morue
morue
77,663 corpus weight
- moss
moss
77,662 corpus weight
- Mylène
Mylène
77,661 corpus weight
What this shows « morue » 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 | morue |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɔ.ʁy\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #22,338 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « morue »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around morue (IPA \mɔ.ʁy\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #22,338 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for morue, with forms such as "mmorue", "moreu", and "morrue". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mou", "mue", "mous", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is morue, spelled M-O-R-U-E.
Definition
- 1Poisson de mer du genre Gadus.
- 2Femme facile, voire prostituée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how morue appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au cours du 20ᵉ siècle, alors que la Baltique s’eutrophisait, la biomasse et les débarquements de trois espèces de poissons (la morue (Gadus morhua), le hareng et le sprat (Sprattus sprattus)) ont augmenté et la biomasse des mammifères marins (phoques (Halichoerus grypus, Phoca hispida), marsouins communs (Phocoena phocoena)) a diminué.
Deux femmes, la mère et la fille, celle-ci, Norine, rouleuse et célèbre, étalaient sur une table boiteuse de la morue, des harengs salés, des harengs saurs, un vidage de fonds de baril dont la saumure forte sautait à la gorge.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mmorue
- moreu
- morrue
- moure
- mroue
- omrue
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of morue - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).