murmured
/ˈmɜː.məd/
"murmured" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“murmured” is uncommon English (frequency #50,687 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,687
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of murmur
Corpus desk
Index EN-murmured · murmured · English
murmured · rank #50,687 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,687
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH multimodal
Nearest frequency peer: multimodal (-1 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 “murmured”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- muggle
muggle
49,317 corpus weight
- multilevel
multilevel
49,316 corpus weight
- multimodal
multimodal
49,315 corpus weight
- murmured
murmured
49,314 corpus weight
- musculature
musculature
49,313 corpus weight
- Mustapha
Mustapha
49,312 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “murmured” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | murmured |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈmɜː.məd/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #50,687 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “murmured” in English
Rare enough to double-check
murmured is uncommon English at frequency #50,687 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ˈmɜː.məd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "simple past and past participle of murmur".
murmured doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is murmured, spelled M-U-R-M-U-R-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of murmur
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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