Which to use
“moire” and “mûre” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #48,051
- “moire” frequency rank
- #22,950
- “mûre” frequency rank
- 71001
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | moire | mûre |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Apprêt que reçoivent, par un calandrage spécifique, certaines étoffes de soie, de laine, de coton ou de lin, et qui leur communique un éclat changeant, une apparence ondée et chatoyante. | 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 moire and mûre
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 3 letters in sequence. moire runs 5 letters (CVVCV) against mûre's 4 (CVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Visual trap between moire and mûre
A purely visual mix-up. moire (\mwaʁ\) and mûre (\myʁ\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 71001, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
moire is recorded at frequency rank #48,051, classified as anoun, pronounced \mwaʁ\. 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 71001, this pair ranks #49,174 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of moire vs mûre
Shared letters: emr. Private to "moire": io. Private to "mûre": û.
"moire" · 5 letters · shape CVVCV · "mûre" · 4 letters · shape CVCV
Known mistypes of this pair
- moire ← miore · mmoire · moier · moirre · morie · omire
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "moire" for "mûre" ever safe?
In ordinary French text, does "moire" or "mûre" show up more?
After this comparison
Visual near-miss handled. Browse the word pages or a neighbour when the next look-alike shows up.
- Full dictionary entry for "moire" 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 #49,174 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "moire" and "mûre" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "moire vs moisie". 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 #49,174 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.