meur
The verdict
“meur” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #43,010) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #43,010
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mûr.
Corpus desk
Index FR-meur · meur · French
meur · rank #43,010 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,010
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Medvedev
Nearest frequency peer: Medvedev (-1 rank slots)
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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « meur »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- Maurin
Maurin
56,995 corpus weight
- Medvedev
Medvedev
56,992 corpus weight
- meur
meur
56,991 corpus weight
- mica
mica
56,990 corpus weight
- mimosa
mimosa
56,988 corpus weight
- mirages
mirages
56,987 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « meur » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | meur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #43,010 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « meur »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for meur is neighbouring look-alikes ("MR", "mu", …), not just typos; it is anadjective. Frequency #43,010 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Gloss: "Mûr.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for meur, with forms such as "emur", "meru", and "meurr". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "MR", "mu", "mur", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is meur, spelled M-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Mûr.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how meur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La greffe qui n'est que du jet de l'année & dont le bois est bien meur, est aussi bonne pour greffer en fente que celle qui à du vieux bois ; […].
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emur
- meru
- meurr
- mmeur
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of meur - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "meur", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).