écrevisse de Murray
\e.kʁə.vis də mœ.ʁɛ\
The verdict
“écrevisse de Murray” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 19
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Crustacé d’eau douce vivant en Australie et mesurant une vingtaine de centimètres.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | écrevisse de Murray |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.kʁə.vis də mœ.ʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “écrevisse de Murray” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for écrevisse de Murray is 19 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.kʁə.vis də mœ.ʁɛ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Crustacé d’eau douce vivant en Australie et mesurant une vingtaine de centimètres.".
No misspelling variants are generated for écrevisse de Murray in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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 French form is écrevisse de Murray, spelled É-C-R-E-V-I-S-S-E- -D-E- -M-U-R-R-A-Y, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Crustacé d’eau douce vivant en Australie et mesurant une vingtaine de centimètres.
Synonyms
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