motif
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,548
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
motif is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ce qui pousse à agir, en parlant de tout élément conscient considéré comme entrant dans la détermination d’un acte volontaire. Pronounced \mɔ.tif\. It ranks #3,548 in French word frequency. Often confused with mots and motos.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | motif |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɔ.tif\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #3,548 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for motif is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɔ.tif\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,548 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 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 motif, with forms such as "mmotif", "moitf", and "motfi". 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, "mots", "motos", "Motte", 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 motif, spelled M-O-T-I-F, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ce qui pousse à agir, en parlant de tout élément conscient considéré comme entrant dans la détermination d’un acte volontaire.
- 2Ce qui justifie quelque chose, raison d’une action.
- 3Sujet ; intention générale.
- 4Enchaînement (de sons, d’accords, de valeurs rythmiques) repris au cours d’un morceau.
- 5Élément graphique répété sur un tissu ou un papier.
- 6Punition, avec indication de la motivation.
- 7Chaîne de caractères employée comme expression régulière.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: mmotif,moitf,motfi,motiff,mottif,mtoif,omtif
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for motif
Misspelling Variants of "motif"
Frequency rank: #3,548 in French
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