mural
\my.ʁal\
The verdict
“mural” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #37,933. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #37,933
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif au mur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mural · mural · French
mural · rank #37,933 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,933
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mousseline
Nearest frequency peer: mousseline (-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 « mural »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- monologues
monologues
62,071 corpus weight
- montgolfière
montgolfière
62,070 corpus weight
- mousseline
mousseline
62,069 corpus weight
- mural
mural
62,068 corpus weight
- murmurer
murmurer
62,067 corpus weight
- muy
muy
62,066 corpus weight
What this shows « mural » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mural |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \my.ʁal\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #37,933 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « mural »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around mural (IPA \my.ʁal\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #37,933 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for mural, with forms such as "mmural", "mrual", and "muarl". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "murs", "mûre", "musa", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is mural, spelled M-U-R-A-L.
Definition
- 1Relatif au mur.
- 2Qui possède des cloisons longitudinales et transversales.
- 3Attaché à la paroi.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mural appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’était une brasserie animée, refaite à neuf il y a longtemps, avec de grands miroirs muraux et un comptoir en pacfung, brillant et lustré, que surmontaient des étagères où étaient alignées toutes sortes de bouteilles.
Héritier en ligne directe du muralisme mexicain, le muralisme chicano est aujourd’hui l’un des multiples exemples de peinture murale aux États-Unis.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mmural
- mrual
- muarl
- murall
- murla
- murral
- umral
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mural - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).