Which to use
“mural” is an adjective and “murales” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #37,933
- “mural” frequency rank
- #23,618
- “murales” frequency rank
- 61551
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | mural | murales |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Relatif au mur. | Pluriel de murale. |
Same sound, different letters: mural vs murales
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 5 letters. mural runs 5 letters (CVCVC) against murales's 7 (CVCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: mural vs murales
Say them out loud and nothing separates them: mural and murales carry the same recorded pronunciation, \my.ʁal\. Grammar is what tells them apart: one is anadjective, the other anoun, so most sentences will only accept one of them. They differ by 2 extra letter(s) - “mural” sits inside “murales”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 61551, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
mural is recorded at frequency rank #37,933, classified as anadj, pronounced \my.ʁal\. murales is at rank #23,618, tagged as anoun, pronounced \my.ʁal\.
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 61551, this pair ranks #91,650 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of mural vs murales
Shared letters: almru. Private to "mural": -. Private to "murales": es.
"mural" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC · "murales" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "mural" and "murales" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "mural" or "murales"?
What to do next
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "mural" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "murales" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #91,650 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "mural" and "murales" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Moura vs mural". 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 #91,650 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.