SMUR
\smyʁ\
The verdict
“SMUR” is uncommon French (frequency #58,944 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,944
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Service mobile d’urgence et de réanimation.
Corpus desk
Index FR-smur · SMUR · French
SMUR · rank #58,944 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,944
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Sonatrach
Nearest frequency peer: Sonatrach (+2 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 « SMUR »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sinistrées
sinistrées
41,061 corpus weight
- sinople
sinople
41,060 corpus weight
- SMUR
SMUR
41,057 corpus weight
- Sonatrach
Sonatrach
41,055 corpus weight
- songea
songea
41,054 corpus weight
- souffrants
souffrants
41,053 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « SMUR » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | SMUR |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \smyʁ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #58,944 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « SMUR » en français
Rare enough to double-check
SMUR is uncommon French at frequency #58,944 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \smyʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Service mobile d’urgence et de réanimation.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for SMUR, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is SMUR, spelled S-M-U-R.
Definition
- 1Service mobile d’urgence et de réanimation.
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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