mûrit

\my.ʁi\

/\my.ʁi\/ verb

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The verdict

“mûrit” is uncommon French (frequency #58,112 among 202,672 “M” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#58,112
frequency rank, French
202,672
“M” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de mûrir.

Key facts for mûrit
PropertyValue
Headwordmûrit
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\my.ʁi\
Letters5
Frequency rank#58,112
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “mûrit” sits in French frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). mûrit lands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

mûrit is uncommon French at frequency #58,112 among 202,672 “M” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \my.ʁi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for mûrit, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 mûrit, spelled M-Û-R-I-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de mûrir.
  2. 2
    Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de mûrir.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "mûrit"?
"mûrit" is spelled M-Û-R-I-T. The IPA pronunciation is \my.ʁi\.
What does "mûrit" mean?
As a verb, "mûrit" means: Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de mûrir.
How do you pronounce "mûrit"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "mûrit" is \my.ʁi\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "mûrit" come from?
"mûrit" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Using “mûrit”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is M-Û-R-I-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \my.ʁi\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
  • Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words

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Data Source

Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list