murmurent
\myʁ.myʁ\
The verdict
“murmurent” is uncommon French (frequency #69,251 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,251
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de murmurer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-murmurent · murmurent · French
murmurent · rank #69,251 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,251
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mutin
Nearest frequency peer: mutin (+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 « murmurent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- MPA
MPA
30,755 corpus weight
- mufle
mufle
30,752 corpus weight
- murmurent
murmurent
30,750 corpus weight
- mutin
mutin
30,749 corpus weight
- Mykonos
Mykonos
30,748 corpus weight
- myosotis
myosotis
30,747 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « murmurent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | murmurent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \myʁ.myʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #69,251 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « murmurent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
murmurent is uncommon French at frequency #69,251 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \myʁ.myʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for murmurent in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is murmurent, spelled M-U-R-M-U-R-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de murmurer.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de murmurer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how murmurent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pratiquer un bain de forêt, c’est se laisser porter par la grâce qui imprègne le monde, la force et la beauté qui sont partout et qui murmurent.
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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