Murphy
\mœʁ.fi\
The verdict
“Murphy” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,820. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,820
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille irlandais.
Corpus desk
Index FR-murphy · Murphy · French
Murphy · rank #12,820 · 10 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #12,820
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH motivée
Nearest frequency peer: motivée (-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 « Murphy »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- modérés
modérés
87,184 corpus weight
- monstrueux
monstrueux
87,183 corpus weight
- motivée
motivée
87,182 corpus weight
- Murphy
Murphy
87,181 corpus weight
- Museum
Museum
87,180 corpus weight
- méprise
méprise
87,178 corpus weight
What this shows « Murphy » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Murphy |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \mœʁ.fi\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #12,820 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Murphy »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Murphy (IPA \mœʁ.fi\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #12,820 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille irlandais.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Murphy, with forms such as "mmurphy", "mruphy", and "muprhy". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Murray", 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 its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Murphy, spelled M-U-R-P-H-Y.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille irlandais.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mmurphy
- mruphy
- muprhy
- murhpy
- murphhy
- murphyy
- murpphy
- murpyh
- murrphy
- umrphy
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Murphy - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Murphy", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).