morveux
\mɔʁ.vø\
The verdict
“morveux” is uncommon French (frequency #50,979 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,979
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a la morve au nez.
Corpus desk
Index FR-morveux · morveux · French
morveux · rank #50,979 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,979
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mormon
Nearest frequency peer: mormon (-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 « morveux »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Modric
Modric
49,025 corpus weight
- monogamie
monogamie
49,024 corpus weight
- mormon
mormon
49,023 corpus weight
- morveux
morveux
49,022 corpus weight
- moucher
moucher
49,021 corpus weight
- moulée
moulée
49,020 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « morveux » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | morveux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \mɔʁ.vø\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #50,979 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « morveux » en français
Rare enough to double-check
morveux is uncommon French at frequency #50,979 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \mɔʁ.vø\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for morveux, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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 morveux, spelled M-O-R-V-E-U-X.
Definition
- 1Qui a la morve au nez.
- 2Qui est atteint de la maladie appelée la morve.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how morveux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les petits voleurs restaient, les uns debout, les autres accotés contre le lit ou la huche, tous morveux et sales, bien portants d’ailleurs, grugeant leurs prunes sans rien dire, mais regardant l’étranger d’un œil sournois et narquois.
Ne donnez au cheval morveux que du son mouillé ; faites lui faire un exercice modéré, […] .
This word in other languages
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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