muraille
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#16,421
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
7
similar word pairs
muraille is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ensemble de murs clôturant un espace. Pronounced \my.ʁaj\. Often confused with murale and myrtille.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | muraille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \my.ʁaj\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #16,421 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for muraille is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \my.ʁaj\. Corpus data places it at rank #16,421 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 18 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for muraille, with forms such as "mmuraille", "mruaille", and "muarille". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "murale", "myrtille", "murailles", 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 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 muraille, spelled M-U-R-A-I-L-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ensemble de murs clôturant un espace.
- 2Élévation de matière imposante par sa hauteur.
- 3Paroi verticale monomorphe.
- 4Meuble représentant un mur crénelé dans les armoiries. Il se blasonne comme le mur. Il se démarque du mur en occupant une grande surface de l’écu.
- 5Partie latérale de la coque d’un navire.
- 6Paroi de la cuirasse d’une pièce d’artillerie.
- 7Ceinture défensive entourant une ville. → voir cordon de muraille
- 8Paroi du sabot d’un ongulé.
- 9Mur d’une habitation ou d’une ville.
- 10Structure imaginaire destinée à protéger quelqu’un ou quelque chose.
- 11Ceinture protectrice.
- 12Zone de végétation naturelle.
- 13Bouclier de protection par la communication.
- 14Barrière mentale.
- 15Collectif protecteur.
- 16Système de protection du moi intérieur.
- 17Ensemble protégé par un système de défense. → voir muraille de Chine
- 18Ville.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: mmuraille,mruaille,muarille,muraile,murailel,muralile,murialle,murraille,umraille
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for muraille
Misspelling Variants of "muraille"
Frequency rank: #16,421 in French
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