Musketier
[mʊskeˈtiːɐ̯]
The verdict
“Musketier” is an uncommon German word, ranked #81,900 in German word frequency and used as a noun.
- #81,900
- frequency rank, German
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - schwer bewaffneter Fußsoldat des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts, später ein Dienstgrad
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Musketier |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [mʊskeˈtiːɐ̯] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #81,900 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Musketier” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Musketier is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [mʊskeˈtiːɐ̯]. Corpus data places it at rank #81,900 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Musketier, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Musketier, spelled M-U-S-K-E-T-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1schwer bewaffneter Fußsoldat des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts, später ein Dienstgrad
- 2Mitglied der Leibwache des französischen Königs im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert
- 3niedrigster Dienstgrad in der preußischen und württembergischen Infanterie bis 1918
This word in other languages
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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Using “Musketier”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is M-U-S-K-E-T-I-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [mʊskeˈtiːɐ̯] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.