murex
\my.ʁɛks\
The verdict
“murex” is uncommon French (frequency #81,363 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,363
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gastéropode hérissé de pointes, autrefois utilisé pour produire de la pourpre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-murex · murex · French
murex · rank #81,363 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,363
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Murcia
Nearest frequency peer: Murcia (-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 « murex »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mourier
mourier
18,642 corpus weight
- mui
mui
18,640 corpus weight
- Murcia
Murcia
18,639 corpus weight
- murex
murex
18,638 corpus weight
- muséographie
muséographie
18,635 corpus weight
- muséographi…
muséographique
18,634 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « murex » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | murex |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \my.ʁɛks\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #81,363 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « murex » en français
Rare enough to double-check
murex is uncommon French at frequency #81,363 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \my.ʁɛks\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Gastéropode hérissé de pointes, autrefois utilisé pour produire de la pourpre.".
No misspelling variants are generated for murex in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is murex, spelled M-U-R-E-X.
Definition
- 1Gastéropode hérissé de pointes, autrefois utilisé pour produire de la pourpre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how murex appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Voici les strombes, on les trouve dans l’Océan Indien, voici le murex fine-épine qui vit en Méditerranée, le murex monodon, la delphinule.
Si Byblos est le pays du cèdre, Tyr est celui du murex, le coquillage qu’on récoltait et broyait pour obtenir la teinture rouge, la fameuse pourpre qui était un des éléments de la renommée des Phéniciens.
Synonyms
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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