musique

/[my.zik]/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#49,911

in German word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

musique is aGermannoun. It means: die Musik Pronounced [my.zik].

Key facts for musique
PropertyValue
Headwordmusique
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[my.zik]
Letters7
Frequency rank#49,911
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of musique in German word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for musique is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [my.zik]. Corpus data places it at rank #49,911 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "die Musik".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for musique, with forms such as "mmusique", "msuique", and "muisque". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is musique, spelled M-U-S-I-Q-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    die Musik

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: mmusique,msuique,muisque,musiqeu,musiqque,musiuqe,musqiue,mussique,umsique

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for musique

Misspelling Variants of "musique"

mmusique8msuique7muisque7musiqeu7musiqque8musiuqe7musqiue7mussique8
Misspelling Variants of "musique"

Frequency rank: #49,911 in German

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "musique"?
"musique" is spelled M-U-S-I-Q-U-E. The IPA pronunciation is [my.zik].
What does "musique" mean?
As a noun, "musique" means: die Musik
What are common misspellings of "musique"?
Common misspellings include "mmusique", "msuique", "muisque", "musiqeu", "musiqque". The correct spelling is "musique".
How do you pronounce "musique"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "musique" is [my.zik]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "musique" come from?
"musique" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.