mûrier
\my.ʁje\
The verdict
“mûrier” is uncommon French (frequency #57,455 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,455
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Genre de la famille des Moraceae, arbres ou arbustes à feuilles caduques alternes, aux fleurs en chatons et dont les fruits composés sont des mûres.
Corpus desk
Index FR-murier · mûrier · French
mûrier · rank #57,455 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,455
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH métropolite
Nearest frequency peer: métropolite (-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 « mûrier »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- méthodiste
méthodiste
42,548 corpus weight
- métropolite
métropolite
42,547 corpus weight
- mûrier
mûrier
42,546 corpus weight
- mûrissent
mûrissent
42,545 corpus weight
- nacré
nacré
42,544 corpus weight
- Nando
Nando
42,543 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mûrier » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mûrier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \my.ʁje\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #57,455 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mûrier » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mûrier is uncommon French at frequency #57,455 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \my.ʁje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
mûrier has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is mûrier, spelled M-Û-R-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Genre de la famille des Moraceae, arbres ou arbustes à feuilles caduques alternes, aux fleurs en chatons et dont les fruits composés sont des mûres.
- 2Arbuste qui donne des fruits similaires.
- 3Mérier-blanc, oiseau qui mange des mûres.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mûrier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le mûrier croît pour nourrir l’insecte sur un tiers de l’hémisphère.
C’est un de ces petits châteaux […] mignons, pimpants qui se mirent dans les eaux du fleuve avec leurs bouquets de mûriers, leurs vignes, leurs chemins creux, […]
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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