mur du son
The verdict
“mur du son” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Seuil acoustique, atteint à la vitesse du son, correspondant à la superposition des ondes sonores.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mur du son |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \myʁ dy sɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mur du son” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for mur du son is 10 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \myʁ dy sɔ̃\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for mur du son in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 mur du son, spelled M-U-R- -D-U- -S-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Seuil acoustique, atteint à la vitesse du son, correspondant à la superposition des ondes sonores.
- 2Passer un niveau d’inaudibilité pour arriver à se faire entendre.
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Using “mur du son”
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- The one correct French spelling is M-U-R- -D-U- -S-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \myʁ dy sɔ̃\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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