Murcie
\myʁ.si\
The verdict
“Murcie” is uncommon French (frequency #59,468 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,468
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune et ville d’Espagne, chef-lieu de la province du même nom.
Corpus desk
Index FR-murcie · Murcie · French
Murcie · rank #59,468 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,468
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Munichois
Nearest frequency peer: Munichois (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Murcie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- motu
motu
40,537 corpus weight
- mouvantes
mouvantes
40,535 corpus weight
- Munichois
Munichois
40,534 corpus weight
- Murcie
Murcie
40,533 corpus weight
- Murdock
Murdock
40,532 corpus weight
- mutual
mutual
40,531 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Murcie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Murcie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \myʁ.si\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #59,468 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Murcie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Murcie is uncommon French at frequency #59,468 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \myʁ.si\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Murcie has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Murcie, spelled M-U-R-C-I-E.
Definition
- 1Commune et ville d’Espagne, chef-lieu de la province du même nom.
- 2Province et communauté autonome d’Espagne.
- 3province et royaume (vassal et ensuite protectorat) d’Espagne ayant pour capitale la ville de Murcie de la Reconquista à 1982.
- 4Taïfa maure d’Al-Andalus, de l’effondrement du califat de Cordoue en 1031 jusqu’à la Reconquista.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Murcie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vedette de la chanson ranchera (cow-boy) mexicaine, Vicente Fernández, 72 ans, a effectué en juin 2012 sa tournée d’adieux en Espagne, avec des concerts à Madrid, Barcelone et Murcie.
Le frère de la députée et maire du Cannet est accusé d’avoir vendu, par sa société Riviera Invest, des appartements sur plans, en Grenade et Murcie, qui n’ont jamais été construits et sur des terrains qui ne lui appartenaient pas.
This word in other languages
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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