murmurer

\myʁ.my.ʁe\

/\myʁ.my.ʁe\/ verb

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The verdict

“murmurer” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #37,934. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#37,934
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faire entendre un murmure, un bruit de voix sourd et confus.

Corpus desk

Index FR-murmurer · murmurer · French

murmurer · rank #37,934 · 11 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-MID #37,934
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH mural

Nearest frequency peer: mural (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « murmurer »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « murmurer » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

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

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

murmurer vs murmure
88% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for murmurer
PropertyValue
Headwordmurmurer
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\myʁ.my.ʁe\
Letters8
Frequency rank#37,934
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « murmurer »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.murmurerse place ici:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « mural » (#37,933), « muy » (#37,935), « mousseline » (#37,932). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « murmurer » est au #37,934. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around murmurer (IPA \myʁ.my.ʁe\), averb. Corpus frequency is #37,934 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for murmurer, with forms such as "mmurmurer", "mrumurer", and "mumrurer". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "murmure", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

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. The correct French form is murmurer, spelled M-U-R-M-U-R-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Faire entendre un murmure, un bruit de voix sourd et confus.
  2. 2
    Se plaindre sourdement.
  3. 3
    Faire courir sourdement des bruits sur quelque affaire, de quelque nouvelle.
  4. 4
    Émettre un son léger, en parlant des eaux, des vents, etc.
  5. 5
    Dire à voix basse, discrètement.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. J'ai vu des prisonniers jetés à coups de matraque d’un étage à l’autre et qui, hébétés par la torture et les coups, ne savaient plus que murmurer en arabe les premières paroles d’une ancienne prière.
  2. Il se soumit sans murmurer.

This word in other languages

murmur(English)murmurar(Español)murmeln(Deutsch)resmungar(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • mmurmurer
  • mrumurer
  • mumrurer
  • murmmurer
  • murmruer
  • murmuerr
  • murmurerr
  • murmurrer
  • murrmurer
  • murumrer
  • umrmurer

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of murmurer - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

mmurmurer1mrumurer2mumrurer2murmmurer1murmruer2murmuerr2murmurerr1murmurrer1
Edit distance from "murmurer"

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 "murmurer"?
"murmurer" is spelled M-U-R-M-U-R-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \myʁ.my.ʁe\.
What does "murmurer" mean?
As a verb, "murmurer" means: Faire entendre un murmure, un bruit de voix sourd et confus.
What words are commonly confused with "murmurer"?
"murmurer" is commonly confused with "murmure". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "murmurer"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "murmurer" is \myʁ.my.ʁe\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "murmurer" come from?
"murmurer" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

moineaux#37,929météores#37,941Melville#37,918oliveira#37,956

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

martelé11 variantsmanuelles11 variantspacotille11 variantsmagasine11 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list