murir
\my.ʁiʁ\
The verdict
“murir” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Devenir mûr.
Corpus desk
Index FR-murir · murir · French
murir · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | murir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \my.ʁiʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « murir » en français
Rare enough to double-check
murir is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \my.ʁiʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for murir in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is murir, spelled M-U-R-I-R.
Definition
- 1Devenir mûr.
- 2Acquérir de la maturité
- 3Rendre mûr.
- 4Développer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how murir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les raisins murissent en automne.
Le soleil fait tout murir.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.