miracle

/\mi.ʁɑkl\/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#4,510

in French word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

5

similar word pairs

miracle is aFrenchnoun. It means: Acte de la puissance divine contraire aux lois connues de la nature. Pronounced \mi.ʁɑkl\. It ranks #4,510 in French word frequency. Often confused with morale and mirage.

Key facts for miracle
PropertyValue
Headwordmiracle
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\mi.ʁɑkl\
Letters7
Frequency rank#4,510
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of miracle in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for miracle is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mi.ʁɑkl\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,510 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for miracle, with forms such as "imracle", "miarcle", and "miraccle". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "morale", "mirage", "murale", 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 French form is miracle, spelled M-I-R-A-C-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Acte de la puissance divine contraire aux lois connues de la nature.
  2. 2
    Acte extraordinaire, en apparence impossible, attribué à Jésus dans les évangiles.
  3. 3
    Chose extraordinaire ou hasard merveilleux, du fait qu’un événement devait naturellement arriver et cependant n’est pas arrivé, ou inversement.
  4. 4
    Ce qui fait naître l’étonnement, l’admiration.
  5. 5
    Qui va tout régler, qui va tout guérir.
  6. 6
    Récit basé sur la vie des saints.
  7. 7
    Représentation théâtrales basées sur la vie des saints.
  8. 8
    Accident, maladresse.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: imracle,miarcle,miraccle,miracel,miraclle,miralce,mircale,mirracle,mmiracle,mriacle

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for miracle

Misspelling Variants of "miracle"

imracle7miarcle7miraccle8miracel7miraclle8miralce7mircale7mirracle8
Misspelling Variants of "miracle"

Frequency rank: #4,510 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "miracle"?
"miracle" is spelled M-I-R-A-C-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \mi.ʁɑkl\.
What does "miracle" mean?
As a noun, "miracle" means: Acte de la puissance divine contraire aux lois connues de la nature.
What words are commonly confused with "miracle"?
"miracle" is commonly confused with "morale", "mirage", "murale". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "miracle"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "miracle" is \mi.ʁɑkl\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "miracle" come from?
"miracle" is a French 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.