miroir
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,696
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
8
similar word pairs
miroir is aFrenchnoun. It means: Glace de verre ou de cristal étamée de petite taille, ou métal poli, où l’on peut regarder son image réfléchie. Pronounced \mi.ʁwaʁ\. It ranks #3,696 in French word frequency. Often confused with miron and mirror.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | miroir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mi.ʁwaʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #3,696 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for miroir is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mi.ʁwaʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,696 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 13 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for miroir, with forms such as "imroir", "miorir", and "mirior". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "miron", "mirror", "miroirs", 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 miroir, spelled M-I-R-O-I-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Glace de verre ou de cristal étamée de petite taille, ou métal poli, où l’on peut regarder son image réfléchie.
- 2Tout corps uni ou poli qui, ne donnant point passage à la lumière, la réfléchit et renvoie l’image des objets.
- 3Ce qui représente une chose et la met en quelque sorte devant nos yeux.
- 4Instrument monté sur un pivot et garni de petites plaques brillantes qu’on fait tourner et qu’on expose au soleil pour attirer des alouettes et d’autres petits oiseaux.
- 5Une barre iridescente dite spéculaire que certaines espèces d’oiseaux comme les anatidés du genre Anas ou les perroquets du genre Amazona possèdent dessinées sur les plumes des ailes.
- 6Excrément de bécasse.
- 7Une tache claire sur les fesses de cervidés.
- 8Marque au pied d’un martelage.
- 9Copie exacte d’un autre site internet.
- 10- Petit éclat qui se fait sous le ciseau en taillant la surface du marbre.
- 11Rétroviseur.
- 12Genre littéraire médiéval, livre donnant des conseils moraux au lecteur.
- 13petit ornement ovale pratiqué dans une moulure creuse.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: imroir,miorir,mirior,miroirr,mirori,mirroir,mmiroir,mrioir
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for miroir
Misspelling Variants of "miroir"
Frequency rank: #3,696 in French
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