Miura
The verdict
“Miura” is uncommon French (frequency #66,117 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,117
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-miura · Miura · French
Miura · rank #66,117 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,117
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH misery
Nearest frequency peer: misery (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Miura »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- millerand
millerand
33,888 corpus weight
- mioches
mioches
33,886 corpus weight
- misery
misery
33,885 corpus weight
- Miura
Miura
33,884 corpus weight
- mièvre
mièvre
33,883 corpus weight
- Moana
Moana
33,881 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Miura » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Miura |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #66,117 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Miura » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Miura is uncommon French at frequency #66,117 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Miura, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Miura, spelled M-I-U-R-A.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
- 2Taureau provenant de l'élevage de la famille Miura.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Miura appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Six toros des héritiers de Don Eduardo Miura (615, 575, 590, 630, 635 et 625 kg ; moyenne : 616,66 kg).
A las cinco de la tarde (à cinq heures du soir), Miguel Báez « Litri » et Julio Aparicio avaient toréé dans la plaza paysanne de Huelva, à la fois contre de noirs Miura, fauves surpuissants redoutés entre tous, et contre les alizés marins qui compliquaient périlleusement le travail de la muleta avant l’estocade.
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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