mourants

/\mu.ʁɑ̃\/ adj

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#41,415

in French word usage

Misspellings

12

tracked variants

Confusables

10

similar word pairs

mourants is anFrenchadj. It means: Masculin pluriel de mourant. Pronounced \mu.ʁɑ̃\. Often confused with mutants and mouvant.

Key facts for mourants
PropertyValue
Headwordmourants
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\mu.ʁɑ̃\
Letters8
Frequency rank#41,415
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs10
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for mourants is 8 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mu.ʁɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #41,415 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Masculin pluriel de mourant.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for mourants, with forms such as "mmourants", "moruants", and "mouarnts". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "mutants", "mouvant", "mouvants", 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 mourants, spelled M-O-U-R-A-N-T-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Masculin pluriel de mourant.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: mmourants,moruants,mouarnts,mourannts,mouranst,mourantss,mourantts,mouratns,mournats,mourrants,muorants,omurants

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for mourants

Misspelling Variants of "mourants"

mmourants9moruants8mouarnts8mourannts9mouranst8mourantss9mourantts9mouratns8
Misspelling Variants of "mourants"

Frequency rank: #41,415 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "mourants"?
"mourants" is spelled M-O-U-R-A-N-T-S. The IPA pronunciation is \mu.ʁɑ̃\.
What does "mourants" mean?
As an adj, "mourants" means: Masculin pluriel de mourant.
What words are commonly confused with "mourants"?
"mourants" is commonly confused with "mutants", "mouvant", "mouvants". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "mourants"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "mourants" is \mu.ʁɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "mourants" come from?
"mourants" 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.