Which to use
“more” and “mort” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #6,852
- “more” frequency rank
- #187
- “mort” frequency rank
- 7039
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | more | mort |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Unité phonologique de durée ou de poids d’une syllabe dans certaines langues, typiquement une voyelle courte ayant une more et une voyelle longue deux mores. | Arrêt définitif des fonctions vitales (assimilation de nutriments, respiration, fonctionnement du système nerveux central). |
Same sound, different letters: more vs mort
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 3 letters.
Ear matches; page differs - more and mort
This is the hard kind. more and mort are pronounced identically (\mɔʁ\) and both work as anoun. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by a single letter - e in “more” becomes t in “mort”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 7039, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
more is recorded at frequency rank #6,852, classified as anoun, pronounced \mɔʁ\. mort is at rank #187, tagged as anoun, pronounced \mɔʁ\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 7039, this pair ranks #424,447 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of more vs mort
Shared letters: mor. Private to "more": e. Private to "mort": t.
"more" · 4 letters · shape CVCV · "mort" · 4 letters · shape CVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "more" and "mort" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "more" or "mort" show up more?
Useful next steps
You've separated the homophone pair "more" / "mort". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "more" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "mort" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #424,447 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "more" and "mort" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "mordue vs more". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #424,447 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.