murmure
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#18,003
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
murmure is aFrenchnoun. It means: Bruit de voix sourd et confus. Pronounced \myʁ.myʁ\. Often confused with murmurer and Mercure.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | murmure |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \myʁ.myʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #18,003 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for murmure is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \myʁ.myʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #18,003 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for murmure, with forms such as "mmurmure", "mrumure", and "mumrure". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "murmurer", "Mercure", "morsure", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is murmure, spelled M-U-R-M-U-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Bruit de voix sourd et confus.
- 2Bruit et les plaintes que font des personnes mécontentes.
- 3Plainte sourde d’une seule personne.
- 4Parole dite à voix très basse.
- 5Mouvement secret de l’âme.
- 6Bruissement léger que font les eaux en coulant, ou le vent quand il agite doucement les feuilles des arbres, etc.
- 7Bruit léger que l’on entend en auscultant, lorsque les poumons sont sains.
- 8Regroupement important d’oiseaux en vol, nuage d’oiseaux, en particulier des étourneaux.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: mmurmure,mrumure,mumrure,murmmure,murmrue,murmuer,murmurre,murrmure,murumre,umrmure
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for murmure
Misspelling Variants of "murmure"
Frequency rank: #18,003 in French
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Nearby French words
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