miroir
\mi.ʁwaʁ\
The verdict
“miroir” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #3,696 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #3,696
- frequency rank, French
- 6
- letters
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Glace de verre ou de cristal étamée de petite taille, ou métal poli, où l’on peut regarder son image réfléchie.
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 | 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) |
Where “miroir” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for miroir is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, 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 generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for miroir, with forms such as "imroir", "miorir", and "mirior". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "miron", "mirror", "miroirs", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is miroir, spelled M-I-R-O-I-R.
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.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: imroir,miorir,mirior,miroirr,mirori,mirroir,mmiroir,mrioir
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of miroir - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Using “miroir”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is M-I-R-O-I-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \mi.ʁwaʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “miron” - see the side-by-side comparison. miroir vs miron
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.