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“mourrai” and “mourrez” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#38,927
“mourrai” frequency rank
#34,631
“mourrez” frequency rank
73558
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature mourrai mourrez
Definition Première personne du singulier du futur de mourir. Deuxième personne du pluriel du futur de mourir.

Same sound, different letters: mourrai vs mourrez

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 5 letters. mourrai (CVVCCVV) and mourrez (CVVCCVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

7 ch
mourrai
7 ch
mourrez

Homophone desk: mourrai vs mourrez

This is the hard kind. mourrai and mourrez are pronounced identically (\muʁ.ʁe\) and both work as averb. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 73558, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

mourrai is recorded at frequency rank #38,927, classified as averb, pronounced \muʁ.ʁe\. mourrez is at rank #34,631, tagged as averb, pronounced \muʁ.ʁe\.

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 73558, this pair ranks #40,050 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of mourrai vs mourrez

Shared letters: moru. Private to "mourrai": ai. Private to "mourrez": ez.

"mourrai" · 7 letters · shape CVVCCVV  ·  "mourrez" · 7 letters · shape CVVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • mourrai ← mmourrai · morurai · mourai · mourari · mourria · muorrai · omurrai
  • mourrez ← mmourrez · morurez · mourerz · mourez · mourrezz · mourrze · muorrez · omurrez

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "mourrai" for "mourrez" ever safe?
No. They are pronounced the same (\muʁ.ʁe\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
In ordinary French text, does "mourrai" or "mourrez" show up more?
"mourrez" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #34,631 in our French list, against #38,927 for "mourrai". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.

  • Full dictionary entry for "mourrai" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "mourrez" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #40,050 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "mourrai" and "mourrez" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Moura vs mourrai". 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 #40,050 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