Which to use
“meur” is an adjective and “muer” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #43,010
- “meur” frequency rank
- #48,671
- “muer” frequency rank
- 91681
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | meur | muer |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Mûr. | Changer de poil, de plumes, de peau, etc., en parlant des animaux. |
Letter map: meur vs muer
Shared letters muted; letters that set meur and muer apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. meur and muer follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Role in the sentence - meur and muer
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: meur is anadjective and mueraverb. On the page they differ only by swapping two adjacent letters (eu ↔ ue) - a transposition the eye reads straight past. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 91681, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
meur is recorded at frequency rank #43,010, classified as anadj. muer is at rank #48,671, tagged as averb, pronounced \mɥe\.
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 91681, this pair ranks #3,626 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of meur vs muer
Shared letters: emru. Private to "meur": -. Private to "muer": -.
"meur" · 4 letters · shape CVVC · "muer" · 4 letters · shape CVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "meur" for "muer" ever safe?
In ordinary French text, does "meur" or "muer" show up more?
Useful next steps
Pair "meur" vs "muer" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.
- Full dictionary entry for "meur" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "muer" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #3,626 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "meur" and "muer" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "mud vs muer". 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 #3,626 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.