Musen
[ˈmuːzn̩]
The verdict
“Musen” is uncommon German (frequency #50,738 among 3,571 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,738
- frequency rank, German
- 3,571
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dativ Plural des Substantivs Mus
Corpus desk
Index DE-musen · Musen · German
Musen · rank #50,738 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,738
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,571
- PHOTO-FINISH Muschelkalk
Nearest frequency peer: Muschelkalk (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „Musen“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- motorisierte
motorisierte
49,267 corpus weight
- mulmig
mulmig
49,265 corpus weight
- Muschelkalk
Muschelkalk
49,264 corpus weight
- Musen
Musen
49,263 corpus weight
- müder
müder
49,261 corpus weight
- mürrisch
mürrisch
49,260 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Musen“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Musen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈmuːzn̩] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #50,738 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Musen“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Musen is uncommon German at frequency #50,738 among 3,571 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈmuːzn̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Dativ Plural des Substantivs Mus".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Musen, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Musen, spelled M-U-S-E-N.
Definition
- 1Dativ Plural des Substantivs Mus
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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