miroir

/\mi.ʁwaʁ\/ noun

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.

Key facts for miroir
PropertyValue
Headwordmiroir
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\mi.ʁwaʁ\
Letters6
Frequency rank#3,696
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs8
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    Glace de verre ou de cristal étamée de petite taille, ou métal poli, où l’on peut regarder son image réfléchie.
  2. 2
    Tout corps uni ou poli qui, ne donnant point passage à la lumière, la réfléchit et renvoie l’image des objets.
  3. 3
    Ce qui représente une chose et la met en quelque sorte devant nos yeux.
  4. 4
    Instrument 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.
  5. 5
    Une 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.
  6. 6
    Excrément de bécasse.
  7. 7
    Une tache claire sur les fesses de cervidés.
  8. 8
    Marque au pied d’un martelage.
  9. 9
    Copie exacte d’un autre site internet.
  10. 10
    - Petit éclat qui se fait sous le ciseau en taillant la surface du marbre.
  11. 11
    Rétroviseur.
  12. 12
    Genre littéraire médiéval, livre donnant des conseils moraux au lecteur.
  13. 13
    petit ornement ovale pratiqué dans une moulure creuse.

Synonyms

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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"

imroir6miorir6mirior6miroirr7mirori6mirroir7mmiroir7mrioir6
Misspelling Variants of "miroir"

Frequency rank: #3,696 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "miroir"?
"miroir" is spelled M-I-R-O-I-R. The IPA pronunciation is \mi.ʁwaʁ\.
What does "miroir" mean?
As a noun, "miroir" means: Glace de verre ou de cristal étamée de petite taille, ou métal poli, où l’on peut regarder son image réfléchie.
What words are commonly confused with "miroir"?
"miroir" is commonly confused with "miron", "mirror", "miroirs". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "miroir"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "miroir" is \mi.ʁwaʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "miroir" come from?
"miroir" 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.