mourrir

\mu.ʁiʁ\

/\mu.ʁiʁ\/ verb

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The verdict

“mourrir” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #25,050. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#25,050
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords
6
tracked misspellings
9
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ancienne orthographe de mourir.

Corpus desk

Index FR-mourrir · mourrir · French

mourrir · rank #25,050 · 6 variants · 9 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #25,050
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
  • VAR-MID 6 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH morse

Nearest frequency peer: morse (-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 « mourrir »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « mourrir » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

mourrir vs mouvoir
71% similar
mourrir vs mourir
86% similar
mourrir vs morris
71% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for mourrir
PropertyValue
Headwordmourrir
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\mu.ʁiʁ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#25,050
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs9
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « mourrir »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).mourrirse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « morse » (#25,049), « mule » (#25,051), « Minsk » (#25,048). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « mourrir » est au #25,050. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 6 spelling variants around mourrir (IPA \mu.ʁiʁ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #25,050 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Ancienne orthographe de mourir.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for mourrir, with forms such as "mmourrir", "morurir", and "mourrirr". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "mouvoir", "mourir", "morris", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is mourrir, spelled M-O-U-R-R-I-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ancienne orthographe de mourir.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how mourrir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Chaſque vie, qui veut eſtre ſans macule, doit mourrir en l’eſprit de la Volonté à la nature au feu, au dégouſt de la premiere Impreſſion de la fureur …

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • mmourrir
  • morurir
  • mourrirr
  • mourrri
  • muorrir
  • omurrir

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mourrir - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

mmourrir1morurir2mourrirr1mourrri2muorrir2omurrir2
Edit distance from "mourrir"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "mourrir"?
"mourrir" is spelled M-O-U-R-R-I-R. The IPA pronunciation is \mu.ʁiʁ\.
What does "mourrir" mean?
As a verb, "mourrir" means: Ancienne orthographe de mourir.
What words are commonly confused with "mourrir"?
"mourrir" is commonly confused with "mouvoir", "mourir", "morris". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "mourrir"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "mourrir" is \mu.ʁiʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "mourrir" come from?
"mourrir" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "mourrir", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

minceur#25,046masqués#25,040obscurs#25,063Marlène#25,036

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).

Nassau6 variantsmarta6 variantsleave6 variantshobby6 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list