murmurar

/[muɾmuˈɾaɾ]/ verb

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#64,798

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

murmurar is aSpanishverb. It means: Referido a movimientos del medio ambiente como el agua, el viento, las hojas de los árboles, etc., producir o emitir un sonido suave, arrullador y apacible. Pronounced [muɾmuˈɾaɾ].

Key facts for murmurar
PropertyValue
Headwordmurmurar
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechVerb
IPA[muɾmuˈɾaɾ]
Letters8
Frequency rank#64,798
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for murmurar is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [muɾmuˈɾaɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #64,798 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for murmurar in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 murmurar, spelled M-U-R-M-U-R-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Referido a movimientos del medio ambiente como el agua, el viento, las hojas de los árboles, etc., producir o emitir un sonido suave, arrullador y apacible.
  2. 2
    Contar y difundir chismes, rumores, comentarios e información negativa sobre otras personas en su ausencia. Hablar mal del ausente, censurándole.
  3. 3
    Expresarse con frases y palabras confusas, repetitivas, poco audibles o entre dientes para manifestar disgusto o desagrado.
  4. 4
    Hablar en voz baja y entre dientes.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #64,798 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "murmurar"?
"murmurar" is spelled M-U-R-M-U-R-A-R. The IPA pronunciation is [muɾmuˈɾaɾ].
What does "murmurar" mean?
As a verb, "murmurar" means: Referido a movimientos del medio ambiente como el agua, el viento, las hojas de los árboles, etc., producir o emitir un sonido suave, arrullador y apacible.
How do you pronounce "murmurar"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "murmurar" is [muɾmuˈɾaɾ]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "murmurar" come from?
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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.