mûre
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#22,950
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
mûre is aFrenchnoun. It means: Fruit composé comestible des mûriers (Morus) de couleur d’abord blanchâtre, puis rouge et enfin noire à maturité. Il est composé de petites baies globuleuses formées par le périanthe devenu charnu ... Pronounced \myʁ\. Often confused with mus and muy.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mûre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \myʁ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #22,950 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for mûre is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \myʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #22,950 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for mûre, with forms such as "mmûre", "mrûe", and "mure". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mus", "muy", "murs", 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 mûre, spelled M-Û-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Fruit composé comestible des mûriers (Morus) de couleur d’abord blanchâtre, puis rouge et enfin noire à maturité. Il est composé de petites baies globuleuses formées par le périanthe devenu charnu et portant un petit akène qui est le vrai fruit, et accolées les unes aux autres en épi.
- 2Fruit multiple comestible de plusieurs espèces de ronces (Rubus spp.), très ressemblant à celui du mûrier.
- 3Utilisé dans l’expression de mûre.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: mmûre,mrûe,mure,mûer,mûrre,ûmre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for mûre
Misspelling Variants of "mûre"
Frequency rank: #22,950 in French
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