mirer
Letters
5 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
mirer is aFrenchverb. It means: Viser, regarder avec attention l’endroit où doit porter le coup d’une arme à feu, d’une arbalète, etc. Pronounced \mi.ʁe\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mirer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \mi.ʁe\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for mirer is 5 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mi.ʁe\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for mirer in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French 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 French form is mirer, spelled M-I-R-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Viser, regarder avec attention l’endroit où doit porter le coup d’une arme à feu, d’une arbalète, etc.
- 2Regarder des œufs, en les plaçant entre son œil et la lumière, pour s’assurer qu’ils sont frais.
- 3Regarder par transparence.
- 4Se regarder dans un miroir ou dans une autre surface réfléchissante.
- 5Se refléter.
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