muer

\mɥe\

/\mɥe\/ verb

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The verdict

“muer” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #48,671) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#48,671
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords
3
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Changer de poil, de plumes, de peau, etc., en parlant des animaux.

Corpus desk

Index FR-muer · muer · French

muer · rank #48,671 · 3 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #48,671
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-LOW 3 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH muettes

Nearest frequency peer: muettes (+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.

Voisins de fréquence du confusable « muer »

Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous

corpus weight

What this shows Les barres placent « muer » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.

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).

muer vs mur
75% similar
muer vs mus
50% similar
muer vs mug
50% similar

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

Key facts for muer
PropertyValue
Headwordmuer
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\mɥe\
Letters4
Frequency rank#48,671
Misspellings tracked3
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rang de corpus près des confusables de « muer »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).muerse 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 « muettes » (#48,672), « Moura » (#48,669), « méridiens » (#48,673). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « muer » est au #48,671. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for muer is neighbouring look-alikes ("mur", "mus", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced \mɥe\. Frequency #48,671 among 5,038 “M” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.

Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for muer, with forms such as "mmuer", "muerr", and "umer". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mur", "mus", "mug", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is muer, spelled M-U-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Changer de poil, de plumes, de peau, etc., en parlant des animaux.
  2. 2
    Changer de voix, qui devient plus grave, en parlant des garçons dans l'adolescence.
  3. 3
    Changer.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Tandis qu'il mue, le crapaud vousse fortement le dos et porte la tête en avant; il arque les pattes antérieures plus encore que de coutume, parfois, il s'en sert pour faire tomber la peau de dessus sa tête.
  2. Sa voix commence à muer.

This word in other languages

moult(English)mudar(Español)mausern(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • mmuer
  • muerr
  • umer

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of muer - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

mmuer1muerr1umer2
Edit distance from "muer"

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 "muer"?
"muer" is spelled M-U-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \mɥe\.
What does "muer" mean?
As a verb, "muer" means: Changer de poil, de plumes, de peau, etc., en parlant des animaux.
What words are commonly confused with "muer"?
"muer" is commonly confused with "mur", "mus", "mug". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "muer"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "muer" is \mɥe\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "muer" come from?
"muer" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Méry#48,675napa#48,680nini#48,685Kohl#48,632

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list