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“muraille” and “murailles” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #16,421
- “muraille” frequency rank
- #20,506
- “murailles” frequency rank
- 36927
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | muraille | murailles |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Ensemble de murs clôturant un espace. | Pluriel de muraille. |
Same sound, different letters: muraille vs murailles
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. muraille runs 8 letters (CVCVVCCV) against murailles's 9 (CVCVVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - muraille and murailles
This is the hard kind. muraille and murailles are pronounced identically (\my.ʁaj\) and both work as anoun. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “muraille” sits inside “murailles”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 36927, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
muraille is recorded at frequency rank #16,421, classified as anoun, pronounced \my.ʁaj\. murailles is at rank #20,506, tagged as anoun, pronounced \my.ʁaj\.
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 36927, this pair ranks #266,142 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of muraille vs murailles
Shared letters: aeilmru. Private to "muraille": -. Private to "murailles": s.
"muraille" · 8 letters · shape CVCVVCCV · "murailles" · 9 letters · shape CVCVVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "muraille" and "murailles" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "muraille" vs "murailles" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "muraille" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "murailles" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #266,142 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "muraille" and "murailles" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "murailles vs myrtilles". 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 #266,142 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.