morve
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#41,907
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
morve is aFrenchnoun. It means: Maladie bactérienne grave, avec fièvre, atteignant notamment la peau et les muqueuses, à laquelle les équidés (chevaux, ânes, etc.) sont sujets et qui est très contagieuse entre eux, surtout lors d... Pronounced \mɔʁv\. Often confused with move and mûre.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | morve |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɔʁv\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #41,907 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for morve is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɔʁv\. Corpus data places it at rank #41,907 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for morve, with forms such as "mmorve", "morev", and "morrve". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "move", "mûre", "moue", 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 morve, spelled M-O-R-V-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Maladie bactérienne grave, avec fièvre, atteignant notamment la peau et les muqueuses, à laquelle les équidés (chevaux, ânes, etc.) sont sujets et qui est très contagieuse entre eux, surtout lors de rassemblements, et peut atteindre d’autres animaux et rarement l’être humain (zoonose).
- 2Humeur qui découle des narines.
- 3Pourriture attaquant diverses plantes.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: mmorve,morev,morrve,morvve,movre,mrove,omrve
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for morve
Misspelling Variants of "morve"
Frequency rank: #41,907 in French
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