mûrit

\my.ʁi\

/\my.ʁi\/ verb

The verdict

“mûrit” is uncommon French (frequency #58,112 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#58,112
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de mûrir.

Corpus desk

Index FR-murit · mûrit · French

mûrit · rank #58,112 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #58,112
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH mélangeur

Nearest frequency peer: mélangeur (-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 « mûrit »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mûrit » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
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)

Longue queue: rang de « mûrit » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).mûrittombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « mélangeur » (#58,111), « negra » (#58,114), « nomad » (#58,115). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « mûrit » est au #58,112. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

mûrit is uncommon French at frequency #58,112 among 5,038 “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.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how mûrit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Les chauds rayons de la cuisine se projettent sur les traits qui durcissent, les restes de bouteilles bus en compagnie des garçons s’infiltrent dans le teint, et nulle fleur ne mûrit plus vite que celle d’une belle écaillère.

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?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "mûrit", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list