Mourmansk
\muʁ.mɑ̃sk\
The verdict
“Mourmansk” is uncommon French (frequency #78,655 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,655
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville de Russie, sur la mer de Barents.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mourmansk · Mourmansk · French
Mourmansk · rank #78,655 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,655
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH moudjahidines
Nearest frequency peer: moudjahidines (-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 « Mourmansk »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- molasse
molasse
21,349 corpus weight
- morphologies
morphologies
21,348 corpus weight
- moudjahidin…
moudjahidines
21,347 corpus weight
- Mourmansk
Mourmansk
21,346 corpus weight
- moussons
moussons
21,345 corpus weight
- MSM
MSM
21,343 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Mourmansk » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Mourmansk |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \muʁ.mɑ̃sk\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #78,655 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Mourmansk » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Mourmansk is uncommon French at frequency #78,655 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \muʁ.mɑ̃sk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ville de Russie, sur la mer de Barents.".
Mourmansk doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Mourmansk, spelled M-O-U-R-M-A-N-S-K.
Definition
- 1Ville de Russie, sur la mer de Barents.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Mourmansk appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Comme Saint-Pétersbourg, Mourmansk est fondée là où il ne fait pas bon vivre, où la nature résiste à l’homme, où elle préfère régner seule et toute puissante. Mourmansk est un défi lancé par l’homme aux forces naturelles, et — comme Saint-Pétersbourg — c’est un défi relevé avec brio.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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