meutrevsmûreTell them apart

Quick tell: meutre is a verb, mûre is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“meutre” is a verb and “mûre” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#48,664
“meutre” frequency rank
#22,950
“mûre” frequency rank
71614
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature meutre mûre
Definition Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de meutern. Fruit composé comestible des mûriers (Morus) de couleur d’abord blanchâtre, puis rouge et enfin noire à maturité. Il est composé de petites baies globuleuses formées par le périanthe devenu charnu et portant un petit akène qui est le vrai fruit, et accolées les unes aux autres en épi.

Where the eye mixes meutre and mûre

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 3 letters in sequence. meutre runs 6 letters (CVVCCV) against mûre's 4 (CVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

6 ch
meutre
4 ch
mûre

Look-alike desk: meutre vs mûre

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: meutre is \ˈmɔɪ̯tʁə\ while mûre is \myʁ\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 2 letter(s) in length, and the parts of speech differ too (verb vs noun), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 71614, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

meutre is recorded at frequency rank #48,664, classified as averb, pronounced \ˈmɔɪ̯tʁə\. mûre is at rank #22,950, tagged as anoun, pronounced \myʁ\.

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 71614, this pair ranks #46,947 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of meutre vs mûre

Shared letters: emr. Private to "meutre": tu. Private to "mûre": û.

"meutre" · 6 letters · shape CVVCCV  ·  "mûre" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • meutreemutre · meture · meurte · meuter · meuttre · mmeutre · muetre

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "meutre" and "mûre" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "meutre" is a verb and "mûre" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "meutre" vs "mûre" - which ranks higher?
"mûre" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #22,950 in our French list, against #48,664 for "meutre". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Eye-level mix-up between "meutre" and "mûre" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "meutre" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "mûre" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #46,947 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "meutre" and "mûre" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "meurtrie vs meutre". 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 #46,947 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list