mourir
\mu.ʁiʁ\
The verdict
“mourir” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,486. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,486
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 16
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cesser de vivre ; devenir mort.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mourir · mourir · French
mourir · rank #1,486 · 7 variants · 16 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,486
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH milliards
Nearest frequency peer: milliards (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « mourir »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- maisons
maisons
98,518 corpus weight
- mercredi
mercredi
98,517 corpus weight
- milliards
milliards
98,516 corpus weight
- mourir
mourir
98,515 corpus weight
- objets
objets
98,514 corpus weight
- opinion
opinion
98,513 corpus weight
What this shows « mourir » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | mourir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \mu.ʁiʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,486 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « mourir »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around mourir (IPA \mu.ʁiʁ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #1,486 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for mourir, with forms such as "mmourir", "moruir", and "mouirr". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 16 confusable-pair relationships, "munir", "mourra", "mourrir", 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 its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is mourir, spelled M-O-U-R-I-R.
Definition
- 1Cesser de vivre ; devenir mort.
- 2Subir des tourments ; être tourmenté.
- 3Finir, disparaitre, en parlant des États, des institutions, des établissements, des choses morales, des productions de l’esprit, des ouvrages de l’art.
- 4Finir peu à peu en parlant de certaines choses, de l’activité, du mouvement ou de choses qui finissent par une dégradation insensible, comme les sons, les couleurs, etc.
- 5Être sur le point de mourir
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mourir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« Eh bien, tu sais, toi, tu ne t’amènes pas trop vite, dit-il. — Faut-il s’en faire mourir ? »
Ce qui est certain, c'est qu'en Extrême-Orient on meurt beaucoup plus par la fièvre typhoïde que par le choléra.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mmourir
- moruir
- mouirr
- mourirr
- mourri
- muorir
- omurir
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mourir - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).