murine
/ˈmjʊəɹaɪn/
"murine" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“murine” is uncommon English (frequency #50,088 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,088
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a mouse.
Corpus desk
Index EN-murine · murine · English
murine · rank #50,088 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,088
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH Nala
Nearest frequency peer: Nala (+2 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “murine”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- moxie
moxie
49,918 corpus weight
- MPN
MPN
49,917 corpus weight
- MRA
MRA
49,916 corpus weight
- murine
murine
49,913 corpus weight
- Nala
Nala
49,911 corpus weight
- NCP
NCP
49,908 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “murine” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| 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) |
Long-tail rank of “murine” in English
Rare enough to double-check
murine is uncommon English at frequency #50,088 among 4,057 “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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how murine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
They had watched, paralysed, as, squeaking with terror, her small murine body was ripped to pieces, Tilly yipping gleefully with excitement all the while.
1977, Richard Peto⁽ᵂᴾ⁾ Are our stem cells really, then, a billion or a trillion times more "cancerproof" than murine stem cells?
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).