murre
/mɜː/
"murre" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“murre” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Any seabird of the genus Uria in the family Alcidae (the auks).
Corpus desk
Index EN-murre · murre · English
murre · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | murre |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /mɜː/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “murre” in English
Rare enough to double-check
murre is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /mɜː/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Any seabird of the genus Uria in the family Alcidae (the auks).".
No generated misspelling entries exist for murre in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: Unknown, possibly imitative of the birds' call. The correct English form is murre, spelled M-U-R-R-E.
Definition
- 1Any seabird of the genus Uria in the family Alcidae (the auks).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how murre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
It may be that in one year alone, the Farallon murre population was reduced to the level at which it stood during the mid-1990s
1997, Robert Wayne Campbell, Neil K. Dawe, The Birds of British Columbia, Volume 2: Nonpasserines: Diurnal birds of prey through woodpeckers, page 296, About 2,800 pairs of Common Murres breed in the province, most of which are in the Scott Islands off northwestern Vancouver Island.
Etymology
Unknown, possibly imitative of the birds' call.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.