myre
\miʁ\
The verdict
“myre” is uncommon French (frequency #84,089 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,089
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Poisson physostome, voisin des anguilles, vivant dans la mer Méditerranée et au large de l'Afrique de l'Ouest.
Corpus desk
Index FR-myre · myre · French
myre · rank #84,089 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,089
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mutilent
Nearest frequency peer: mutilent (-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 « myre »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- muselés
muselés
15,915 corpus weight
- muséologie
muséologie
15,914 corpus weight
- mutilent
mutilent
15,913 corpus weight
- myre
myre
15,912 corpus weight
- mèneraient
mèneraient
15,910 corpus weight
- mécanisé
mécanisé
15,909 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « myre » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | myre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \miʁ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #84,089 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « myre » en français
Rare enough to double-check
myre is uncommon French at frequency #84,089 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \miʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Poisson physostome, voisin des anguilles, vivant dans la mer Méditerranée et au large de l'Afrique de l'Ouest.".
Zero misspellings are on record for myre in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 myre, spelled M-Y-R-E.
Definition
- 1Poisson physostome, voisin des anguilles, vivant dans la mer Méditerranée et au large de l'Afrique de l'Ouest.
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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