meurtre

\mœʁtʁ\

/\mœʁtʁ\/ noun

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The verdict

“meurtre” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,484. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#2,484
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
13
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Homicide volontaire.

Corpus desk

Index FR-meurtre · meurtre · French

meurtre · rank #2,484 · 10 variants · 13 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #2,484
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH jusque

Nearest frequency peer: jusque (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « meurtre »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « meurtre » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

meurtre vs meute
71% similar
meurtre vs meutre
86% similar
meurtre vs meurtri
86% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for meurtre
PropertyValue
Headwordmeurtre
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\mœʁtʁ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#2,484
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs13
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « meurtre »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).meurtrese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « jusque » (#2,483), « mises » (#2,485), « Inde » (#2,482). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « meurtre » est au #2,484. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around meurtre (IPA \mœʁtʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #2,484 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for meurtre, with forms such as "emurtre", "merutre", and "meurrte". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 13 confusable-pair relationships, "meute", "meutre", "meurtri", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is meurtre, spelled M-E-U-R-T-R-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Homicide volontaire.
  2. 2
    Action perçue comme dommageable ou moralement répréhensible.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how meurtre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. L’idée du meurtre inspire bien moins d’effroi lorsque la loi-même en donne l’exemple et le spectacle ; l’horreur du crime diminue dès qu’elle ne le punit plus que par un autre crime.
  2. La loi de Lynch était fréquemment appliquée ; un homme convaincu de meurtre ou de vol pouvait se voir arrêter, juger, et… pendre, en moins d’un quart d’heure, pour peu qu’un comité de vigilance énergique s’emparât de lui.

Synonyms

assassinat

This word in other languages

murder(English)asesinato(Español)Mord(Deutsch)assassinato(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • emurtre
  • merutre
  • meurrte
  • meurrtre
  • meurter
  • meurtrre
  • meurttre
  • meutrre
  • mmeurtre
  • muertre

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of meurtre - 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.

emurtre2merutre2meurrte2meurrtre1meurter2meurtrre1meurttre1meutrre2
Edit distance from "meurtre"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "meurtre"?
"meurtre" is spelled M-E-U-R-T-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \mœʁtʁ\.
What does "meurtre" mean?
As a noun, "meurtre" means: Homicide volontaire.
What words are commonly confused with "meurtre"?
"meurtre" is commonly confused with "meute", "meutre", "meurtri". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "meurtre"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "meurtre" is \mœʁtʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "meurtre" come from?
"meurtre" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "meurtre", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

mélange#2,486fournir#2,477fenêtre#2,475surpris#2,495

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

terrible10 variantsavancer10 variantsdécrit10 variantsretirer10 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list