murieron

/[muˈɾjeɾõn]/ verb

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#3,943

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

11

tracked variants

Confusables

4

similar word pairs

murieron is aSpanishverb. It means: Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito perfecto simple de indicativo de morir o de morirse. Pronounced [muˈɾjeɾõn]. It ranks #3,943 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with muriera and metieron.

Key facts for murieron
PropertyValue
Headwordmurieron
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechVerb
IPA[muˈɾjeɾõn]
Letters8
Frequency rank#3,943
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of murieron in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for murieron is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [muˈɾjeɾõn]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,943 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito perfecto simple de indicativo de morir o de morirse.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for murieron, with forms such as "mmurieron", "mruieron", and "muireron". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "muriera", "metieron", "movieron", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is murieron, spelled M-U-R-I-E-R-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito perfecto simple de indicativo de morir o de morirse.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: mmurieron,mruieron,muireron,mureiron,murieorn,murierno,murieronn,murierron,murireon,murrieron,umrieron

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for murieron

Misspelling Variants of "murieron"

mmurieron9mruieron8muireron8mureiron8murieorn8murierno8murieronn9murierron9
Misspelling Variants of "murieron"

Frequency rank: #3,943 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "murieron"?
"murieron" is spelled M-U-R-I-E-R-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is [muˈɾjeɾõn].
What does "murieron" mean?
As a verb, "murieron" means: Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito perfecto simple de indicativo de morir o de morirse.
What words are commonly confused with "murieron"?
"murieron" is commonly confused with "muriera", "metieron", "movieron". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "murieron"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "murieron" is [muˈɾjeɾõn]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "murieron" come from?
"murieron" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.