Which to use
“mœurs” and “maury” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #10,361
- “mœurs” frequency rank
- #27,521
- “maury” frequency rank
- 37882
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | mœurs | maury |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Habitudes, naturelles ou acquises, relatives à la pratique du bien ou du mal au sens de la morale. | Vin doux naturel rouge d’appellation d’origine contrôlée produit autour de Maury, au nord-ouest de Perpignan dans les Pyrénées-Orientales. |
Where the eye mixes mœurs and maury
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 3 letters in sequence.
Look-alike desk: mœurs vs maury
A purely visual mix-up. mœurs (\mœʁ\) and maury (\mo.ʁi\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 37882, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
mœurs is recorded at frequency rank #10,361, classified as anoun, pronounced \mœʁ\. maury is at rank #27,521, tagged as anoun, pronounced \mo.ʁi\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 37882, this pair ranks #259,300 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of mœurs vs maury
Shared letters: mru. Private to "mœurs": sœ. Private to "maury": ay.
"mœurs" · 5 letters · shape CVVCC · "maury" · 5 letters · shape CVVCV
Known mistypes of this pair
- maury ← amury · maruy · maurry · mauryy · mauyr · mmaury · muary
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "mœurs" and "maury" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "mœurs" or "maury" show up more?
What to do next
Pronunciation already separates them, if the page still looks alike, the dictionary links below settle it.
- Full dictionary entry for "mœurs" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "maury" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #259,300 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "mœurs" and "maury" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "maury vs Méry". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #259,300 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.