mûres
\myʁ\
The verdict
“mûres” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #25,411. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #25,411
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de mûr.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mures · mûres · French
mûres · rank #25,411 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #25,411
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mélangent
Nearest frequency peer: mélangent (-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 « mûres »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- muscu
muscu
74,593 corpus weight
- Myers
Myers
74,592 corpus weight
- mélangent
mélangent
74,591 corpus weight
- mûres
mûres
74,590 corpus weight
- NF
NF
74,588 corpus weight
- nigérian
nigérian
74,587 corpus weight
What this shows « mûres » 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 | mûres |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \myʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #25,411 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « mûres »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around mûres (IPA \myʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #25,411 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin pluriel de mûr.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for mûres, with forms such as "mmûres", "mrûes", and "mures". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mus", "murs", "muse", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is mûres, spelled M-Û-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de mûr.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mûres appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour mon projet, j’ai pensé à faire les nôtres triangulaires ; mais je préférerais, après de mûres réflexions, de petites bouteilles de verre mince clissées en roseau ; elles auraient un air mystérieux, et le consommateur aime tout ce qui l’intrigue.
La plupart des mères, pour donner à leurs filles une certaine beauté de convention, contrarient en elles les lois physiologiques de croissance et en font à quinze ans des femmes déjà mûres, qui seront, hélas ! flétries à trente ans et infirmes à quarante, tandis que, d’après les lois naturelles, la femme doit achever sa croissance à vingt ans, s’invigoris…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mmûres
- mrûes
- mures
- mûers
- mûress
- mûrres
- mûrse
- ûmres
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mûres - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "mûres", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (8 here; floor ≥5).