murmurant
\myʁ.my.ʁɑ̃\
The verdict
“murmurant” is uncommon French (frequency #57,444 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,444
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui murmure.
Corpus desk
Index FR-murmurant · murmurant · French
murmurant · rank #57,444 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,444
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH murmurait
Nearest frequency peer: murmurait (-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 « murmurant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- multifoncti…
multifonctionnel
42,561 corpus weight
- multilatéra…
multilatérale
42,560 corpus weight
- multilatéra…
multilatérales
42,559 corpus weight
- murmurait
murmurait
42,558 corpus weight
- murmurant
murmurant
42,557 corpus weight
- MySQL
MySQL
42,554 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « murmurant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | murmurant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \myʁ.my.ʁɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #57,444 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « murmurant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
murmurant is uncommon French at frequency #57,444 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \myʁ.my.ʁɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui murmure.".
Zero misspellings are on record for murmurant in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is murmurant, spelled M-U-R-M-U-R-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui murmure.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how murmurant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’idée alors lui vint qu’elle était sans doute sous les platanes, près de la fontaine, dans le perpétuel frisson de cette eau murmurante.
Autour de lui, comme pour faire écho aux tendresses murmurantes qui s’agitaient en son cœur, la magie des soirs silencieux accomplissait son mystère.
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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