murine
/ˈmjʊəɹaɪn/
"murine" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“murine” is uncommon English (frequency #50,088 among 36,575 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,088
- frequency rank, English
- 36,575
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a mouse.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | murine |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈmjʊəɹaɪn/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #50,088 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “murine” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
murine is uncommon English at frequency #50,088 among 36,575 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ˈmjʊəɹaɪn/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
murine has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: Learned borrowing from Latin mūrīnus (“mouselike”). The correct English form is murine, spelled M-U-R-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a mouse.
- 2More generally, of, pertaining to, or characteristic of any rodent up to the taxonomic rank of Muroidea, most often with reference to mice and rats of the subfamily Murinae.
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin mūrīnus (“mouselike”).
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “murine”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is M-U-R-I-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈmjʊəɹaɪn/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.